AFFECTIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affective mean? 

• AFFECTIVE (adjective)
  The adjective AFFECTIVE has 1 sense:

1. characterized by emotion

  Familiarity information: AFFECTIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFECTIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by emotion

Synonyms:

affectional; affective; emotive

Similar:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

Derivation:

affect (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon)

 Context examples 

The motivational and/or affective state of annoyance resulting from being blocked, thwarted, disappointed or defeated.

(Frustration, NCI Thesaurus)

Together with the unpleasantness scale these tools serve to differentiate the patient's sensory perception of pain intensity from their affective experience of the pain's "unpleasant" quality.

(Gracely Pain Intensity Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Together with the intensity scale these tools serve to differentiate the patient's sensory perception of pain intensity from their affective experience of the pain's "unpleasant" quality.

(Gracely Pain Unpleasantness Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

An instrument measuring the affective, sensory and intensity dimensions of pain.

(Pain Perception Profile, NCI Thesaurus)

Measures the sensory and affective components of pain using a magnitude ratio scale.

(Descriptor Differential Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Some people get seasonal affective disorder in the winter.

(Depression, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

It also showed that, on average, autistic people score lower on the EQ, and that this was because they struggle with cognitive empathy, even though their affective empathy may be intact.

(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)

Mood-stimulating drugs used primarily in the treatment of affective disorders and related conditions.

(Antidepressant Agent, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A major affective disorder marked by severe mood swings (manic or major depressive episodes) and a tendency to remission and recurrence.

(Bipolar Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

The first part is called ‘cognitive empathy’ and the second part ‘affective empathy’.

(Study finds that genes play a role in empathy, University of Cambridge)