¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affectivities
1. affectivity [n] - See also: affectivity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affectivities
Literary usage of Affectivities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1912)
"of whatever kind they are, and in which therefore both of the two conflicting
affectivities cooperate. Now for instance when we are surprised by a sudden ..."
2. Eugenio Rignano Upon the Inheritance of Acquired Characters: A Hypothesis of by Eugenio Rignano (1911)
"... from coarse brutal sexual appetite to an harmonious cooperation of the gentlest
and most delicate moral affectivities.40 Yet it is easily comprehensible ..."
3. Essays in Scientific Synthesis by Eugenio Rignano (1918)
"tion, the " sexual vanity " of both male and female, and the other similar
affectivities. The same holds good of the tearing to pieces of an animal's prey, ..."
4. Essays in Scientific Synthesis by Eugenio Rignano (1918)
"... each environmental situation, as soon as it becomes slightly complicated, and
thus succeeds in evoking at the same time a variety of affectivities. ..."
5. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1909)
"Disturbances of the affectivities often begin with complaints as to all sorts of
subjective sensations, followed by hypochondriacal ideas, such as that the ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"... physiological state or to re-establish it if it has been disturbed, must be
added another which in its turn becomes the source of new affectivities. ..."
7. Aspects of Child Life and Education by Granville Stanley Hall (1921)
"(3) Closely connected with this was the group of studies made on the fundamental
affectivities of the child. Here belong the papers on pleasure and pain, ..."
8. The Argonaut (1877)
"And also that the more creative the spirit and the more various its affectivities
or modes of being affected, the greater the quantity of extraneous ..."
Other Resources:
