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What is the adjective for affective?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs affect, affection and affectionate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

affected
  1. Influenced or changed by something.
  2. Simulated in order to impress.
  3. Emotionally moved; touched.
  4. (algebra, archaic) adfected.
  5. Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
  6. artificial, stilted
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “Camilla's affected laugh would actually come across as rather creepy.”
      “Elizabeth spoke with an affected baritone voice, wanting desperately to be taken seriously by her peers.”
      “Close family members were deeply affected by the tragedy.”
affectioned
  1. (archaic) feeling a certain affection for; so disposed
  2. (archaic) affected, pompous
  3. (archaic) obstinate, willful
  4. (archaic) zealous, earnest
affectionate
  1. (of a person) Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond.
  2. (of an action, etc.) Characterised by or proceeding from affection; indicating love; tender.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “She was still affectionate towards her family, but she didn't warm up to people as easily as she once had.”
      “The man who had often faced death unmoved on the waves of the ocean, was now tending me with all the tenderness of an affectionate nurse.”
affectionless
  1. Without affection; unfeeling; emotionless.
  2. (psychology) Incapable of empathy.
affective
  1. Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
  2. Emotional; emotionally charged.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Learning is already underway at this stage, involving, for example, the infant's affective attunement to the mother.”
      “Such an affective scene is powerful, and the melodramatic techniques applied on the audiovisual layers amplified their affective intensity.”
      “This method has been successfully employed in other subliminal affective priming studies.”
affectional
  1. Pertaining to the affections; affective; characterized by emotion
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Future research could include measures of affectional bonding to or romantic desire for males or females.”
      “Does the applicant act out of an aching loneliness, out of a need to have and control a source of love and affectional response?”
      “Attachment refers to an enduring affectional bond characterized by mutual trust, support, and emotional connection.”
affecting
affectible
  1. Alternative form of affectable
affectless
  1. Lacking or not showing emotion.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Upon hearing about the devastating news, Emily remained affectless, showing no sign of sympathy or concern.”
      “After her tragic loss, she became affectless, her face devoid of any emotion.”
      “Instead of internationalism, we find among the Left now a sort of affectless, neutralist, smirking isolationism.”
affectable
  1. Able to be affected.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A God who is living must be affectable by the goings-on of the temporal universe, and so be in time.”
      “Neither honour nor artistic personality is affectable by external considerations which are on a different plane of value.”
      “They are too affectable, too susceptible to sudden changes of mood.”
affectious
affectated
affectedest
  1. superlative form of affected: most affected
affectioning
  1. present participle of affection
affectionated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of affectionate
affectionating
  1. present participle of affectionate
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