Definition of Affectivities

1. Noun. (plural of affectivity) ¹

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Definition of Affectivities

1. affectivity [n] - See also: affectivity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Affectivities

affectionately
affectionateness
affectionates
affectionating
affectioned
affectionless
affections
affective
affective disorder
affective disorders
affective personality disorder
affective psychosis
affective symptoms
affective tone
affectively
affectivities
affectivity
affectless
affectlessness
affectomotor
affects
affectuous
affeer
affeered
affeering
affeerment
affeerments
affeers
affenpinscher
affenpinschers

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 ..."

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