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Definition of Affectability
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affectability
Literary usage of Affectability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1893)
"The term affectability, applied by Morell to the constitution of woman, ...
This predisposition or affectability is shown as well for rheumatism, ..."
2. An Introduction to Social Psychology by William MacDougall (1921)
"(3) The conjunction of high affectability and high intensity with low persistence
... (4) The despondent temper is that which combines low affectability and ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1909)
"... and the greater affectability of women. The latter is perhaps the most
fundamental sex difference that exists on the psychical side, and indeed, ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1904)
"In other words, its retaining power was not equal to its affectability; affectability
first appears —the power of receiving impressions—and then later, and, ..."
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