Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

affiliative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.41 in modern English

Syllables: af-fil-ia-tive
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

tending to promote social cohesion

Example Sentences

"Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure, tended to misscore as stage 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content."

Derived Forms

affiliatively disaffiliative unaffiliative

Questions

What does affiliative mean?: tending to promote social cohesion

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