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affective

affective

8 6.8
Relating to feelings or emotions
  • adjective
  • /əˈfɛk.tɪv/
translation icon : afectivo
  • The affective response to music can evoke deep emotions in listeners.
  • affective domain
  • affective response
  • affective sharing

And, you know, there's also an affective side to this as well.

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Examples

  • EE curricula, at every opportunity, should include both cognitive and affective strategies in activities dealing with microbes and invertebrates.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Community members emphasized the emotional and affective support that CBHNs provided.

    Academic text (2011)
  • It's the affective circuits of the brain that control learning.

  • We usually experience them as affective feelings, these very simple physical sorts of feelings.

  • Mostly what we're having is initial moral affective responses.

  • However, it seems that recent research leads teachers to the affective domain and to reach to touch students emotionally.

    Academic text (2011)
  • And, you know, there's also an affective side to this as well.

  • The multicriteria screening assessed cognitive and affective processes not measured by the intelligence test.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The present study focuses on two of these components: affective well-being and self-perceptions of competence.

    Academic text (1990)
  • REE centers around the exploration of the affective domain and its relationship to cognitive and behavioral dimensions.

    Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

emotional
vsaffective
535 2.1

Showing strong feelings that are easy to see

relates generally to emotions rather than only showing strong feelings
emotive
vsaffective
10 6.0

Causes strong feelings, often sadness or joy

relates to emotions rather than primarily causing strong reactions

Antonyms

cognitive
  • Specialized
134 5.4

About thinking, remembering, and learning

Compounds

affective disorder
  • Specialized
2 7.5

A mental illness that causes strong, lasting changes in mood, like depression or bipolar condition

8.2

A serious mental illness that causes very low or very high mood

How Emotional

emotional
535 2.1
affective
8 6.8
reserved
3.7
unemotional
11 4.4

Surface Forms

affective positive

Morphology

affective = affect (semi-transparent) = affect + ive

Formally 'affect' + '-ive' is clear, but the adjective depends on the specialized psychological sense of 'affect', which may be unfamiliar to average learners.

Etymology

Affective comes from the verb affect and the Latin root afficere, which meant 'to influence'. So affective describes what touches or changes a person's emotions, in other words 'relating to feelings'.