affective

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From Medieval Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere (“to affect”). By surface analysis, affect + -ive.

There was affective sympathy, but no great intellectual fellowship, between Knight and Stephen Smith. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy
But nothing prevents us from isolating this element and inquiring separately, in what does the intensity of an affective sensation, a pleasure or a pain, consist? — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson
But it may happen that we do not realize what we are actually thinking of, and perceive the idea really present to our mind only through a mist of affective states. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri

affectional, emotive

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