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Definition of Affectivity
1. Noun. The ability or tendency to experience (positive or negative) feelings, and to react to them. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affectivity
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Medical Definition of Affectivity
1. The mental state (pleasure, repugnance, etc.) that accompanies every act or thought. Synonym: affective tone, emotional tone, affectivity. Fundamental tone, the component of lowest frequency in a complex tone. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affectivity
Literary usage of Affectivity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"DISORDERS OF affectivity. PATHOLOGICAL modifications of affectivity are ...
Diminution of affectivity.—In its most pronounced degree indifference involves ..."
2. Morale, the Supreme Standard of Life and Conduct by Granville Stanley Hall (1920)
"... fun—Its compensatory value for morale—IL Music as the organ of affectivity—Its
development in this country, France, England, and Germany—War poetry—III. ..."
3. Mind and Health, with an Examination of Some Systems of Divine Healing by Edward Ebenezer Weaver (1913)
"On the contrary, affectivity rules the associations much more than in the sound."
Bleuler maintains that suggestion and affectivity have the like effect on ..."
4. Manual of Psychiatry by Joseph Rogues de Fursac, Aaron Joshua Rosanoff (1916)
"DISORDERS OF affectivity. PATHOLOGICAL modifications of affectivity are ...
Diminution of affectivity.—In its most pronounced degree indifference involves ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"The feelings in the last group are closely allied with "affectivity," they are
... In order to arrive at a physiological idea of affectivity, he cites an ..."
6. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"In order to arrive at a physiological idea of affectivity, he cites an illustration
of the ... And affectivity is the condition determining the conduct, ..."
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