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Meanings of affective in English

Characterized by emotion.

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Examples for "emotive"
Examples for "emotive"
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This is especially important given the emotive nature of what is involved.
The Irish Times
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Polls using lists of emotive circumstances tend to distort results, it said.
The Irish Times
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Such is the emotive allure of horses: powerful yet all too vulnerable.
The Irish Times
4
Employ the emotive tone to convey ideas of your truthfulness and honor.
Certain Success
5
The debate over who is the best has become almost tediously emotive.
The Guardian
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They are certainly more highly organised on the affectional plane than man.
Here are Ladies
2
I break some law of my affectional nature; is nothing to happen?
Our Unitarian Gospel
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And do not let your emotional and affectional nature grow atrophied.
A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Dau...
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This vampyrism extends through every department of the affectional nature.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul
5
Rise one step to man as an affectional being.
Our Unitarian Gospel
Usage of affective in English
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He has what we would call 'affective dreams' that change the future.
Radio NZ
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In all three conditions, however, direct gaze elicited positive affective facial reactions.
Pubmed
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The constant gloom gave her a serious case of seasonal affective disorder.
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods
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The methodological problems inherent in post-mortem studies in affective disorder are discussed.
Pubmed
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We assessed mood to control for possible momentary affective influences on cognition.
Pubmed
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Background: The literature documents that functional impairment is associated with affective disorders.
Pubmed
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Aims: To compare childhood psychological antecedents of adult schizophrenia and affective psychosis.
Pubmed
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Negative affective states affect quality of life for patients suffering from pain.
Pubmed
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There were no significant differences between subjects with affective and schizophreniform psychosis.
Pubmed
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Cognitive and affective disturbances can occur in the context of cerebellar disease.
Pubmed
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Linkage to affective disorders was not strongly supported for any marker locus.
Pubmed
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We all have someone we're neglecting, some sort of affective jet lag.
The Guardian
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Second, effective but not affective poverty, which is a very unhappy condition.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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Results: The intervention significantly reduced weeks in affective episode, primarily mania.
Pubmed
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All BPI patients had a positive family history of affective disorder.
Pubmed
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Changes in the processing of emotional information are key features of affective disorders.
Pubmed
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Affective through the time
Affective across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Rare