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affectivity Psychol.|æfɛkˈtɪvɪtɪ| [f. affective a. 7 b + -ity.] Emotional susceptibility.
1907Brain XXX. 160 The extent of this expectation curve rises in normal individuals, depending upon their varying degree of affectivity. 1917C. R. Payne tr. Pfister's Psychoanalytic Method xi. 303 In it [i.e. autistic thinking] the affectivity predominates. 1924A. A. Brill tr. Bleuler's Textbk. Psychiatry i. 32 Under the term affectivity we comprise the affects, the emotions, and the feelings of pleasure and displeasure. 1952V. Gollancz My dear Timothy xx. 360 Nursing is, for mother and child, one long delightful and highly charged game, in which the easy warm affectivity of a lifetime is set up. |