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affective

/əˈfɛktɪv/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
af-fec-tive
IPA
/əˈfɛktɪv/
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.

adj

Emotional; emotionally charged; affecting.

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: affectivus, affectus

Inflected Forms

more affective (comparative) most affective (superlative)

Derived Forms

affectively affectiveness affectivity homoaffective neuroaffective nonaffective psychoaffective schizoaffective socioaffective subaffective

Phrases

affective computing affective disorder affective labor affective partisan polarization cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome seasonal affective disorder

Frequently Paired Words

affect affectation affecter affection affectionate effective cognitive motor

Synonyms

affectional emotive

Homonyms

effective (weak vowel merger)

Rhymes With

effective perspective objective collective detective respective protective selective prospective subjective directive ineffective

Questions

How do you pronounce affective?
The recorded pronunciation is /əˈfɛktɪv/.
What does affective mean?
Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
Where does affective come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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