In a sentence
Six example sentences with affective, each labelled with its topic.
The questionnaire separates affective responses from reasoned ones, asking first how the photograph made you feel before any analysis.
Psychology
A minor key carries an affective weight that listeners report as sadness even when the lyrics describe an ordinary morning.
Music
The director builds the scene for affective impact, letting silence and a held close-up do what dialog could not.
Movies
Affective computing tries to read a user's frustration from typing speed and soften the interface before they quit.
Technology
Hume held that moral judgment is affective at root, a feeling of approval that reasoning only later explains.
Philosophy
The poem's affective charge comes from plain words about a kitchen, not from any grand image or rhyme.
Literature
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- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
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