affectivityn.

1854 A. Brown Philos. Physics p. x The heavenly bodies, with all the physical phenomena in nature, are to be regarded as only sensible manifestations of the affectivity of ever-existing principles, à priori, of physics, and as called into action by the all-ruling will.

1885 A. M. Christie tr. B. Perez First Three Years Childhood ix. 155 Is this play, or a superabundance of vitality, or unregulated and unconscious impulsions of affectivity?

1891 Wood's Med. & Surg. Monogr. XII. 329 This obscure affinity of affectivity may, by a process of involuntary non-hypnotic auto-suggestion, insensibly, yet gradually, grow on the performer.

1902 Mind 11 537 Our second characteristic is not quantitative but qualitative, and is that of Affectivity. Every state of consciousness is invested with a certain affective tone, which we call pleasure or pain.

1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method xi. 303 In it [sc. autistic thinking] the affectivity predominates.

1924 A. A. Brill tr. E. Bleuler Textbk. Psychiatry i. 32 Under the term affectivity we comprise the affects, the emotions, and the feelings of pleasure and displeasure.

1952 V. 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.

1974 P. Kurtz in S. Hook et al. Idea Mod. University 195 Some humanists in education today emphasize the need for a curriculum based upon affectivity and feeling.

1995 New Scientist 2 Sept. 80/2 Souter..goes on to plead the cause of children who are so afflicted with ‘feelings of negative affectivity’ at school that they stay at home.