'affective' is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used as an adjective to describe something related to emotions or feelings, or as a noun to refer to the power of influencing emotion. For example: The teacher's affecitve approach to teaching ensured her students felt comfortable expressing their emotions.
Furthermore, the Stagirite speaks of four species of quality (habits and dispositions, natural capacities and incapacities, affective qualities and affections, figures and shapes), without explaining how they are related to one another and to the highest genus of the category.
In fact, (1) figures and shapes are those perceptible qualities which inhere in substances because of the mutual position of its quantitative parts, while affective qualities and affections inhere in substances because of the form itself of the substantial composite.
Clifton Ward in Southmead Hospital had 19 beds, was always fully occupied, and provided care for people with a range of illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar affective disorder and major depression.
Here are five Christmas catastrophes about to wreak havoc on your little grey cells: Researchers believe that as many as a third of the UK population suffer from seasonal affective disorder – severe changes in mood with the onset of winter.
I knew that Byron had a diagnosis of bipolar affective disorder, and I knew he'd been very unwell in the past.
Add to the mix the potential for affective computing; the ability for a computer device to recognise your facial expression or predict your mood through your gestures or body pose and respond appropriately; increasingly sophisticated language recognition and speech production technologies, and this illusion of humanity will become even stronger.
An annual dose of depression suggests that you may have seasonal affective disorder (Sad), a bona fide condition that was recognised even in ancient Greece.
He possesses no negative behavioural, affective, cognitive or personality indicators to indicate risk to others or risk of deterioration if he were to be recategorised as a category B prisoner … [he is] only at risk if he is left as a category A prisoner; at risk of deteriorating depression".
The other was the Affective Go/No-Go test, which is done on a computer.
Researchers break down people's feelings into "affective happiness" (everyday ups and downs) and "evaluative happiness" (a person's overall assessment of his or her life).
The story is resolved but Mr Scudamore's affective writing ensures a feeling of uneasiness lingers.
