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• affection (n.): [...] an emotion, a feeling; esp. feeling as opp. to reason; passion, lust; (adj.): affectional: of or having affections. [Old French, fr. Latin affectio(n-), fr. affect- + -ion]. (Oxford Dictionary).

• affection (n.): [...]. 2. feeling or emotion; often used in the plural; (adj.): affectional; (adv.): affectionally. [Middle English affeccioun, fr. Old French affection, fr. Latin affectio, affection-, fr. affectus, past participle of afficere, ‘to affect, influence’]. (American Heritage Dictionary).

• affection (n.): [...]. 2. (often plural) emotion, feeling, or sentiment; (adj.): affectional. [fr. Latin affection- ‘disposition’, fr. afficere, ‘to affect’]. (Collins Dictionary).

• affection (n.): [...]. 2. often, affections; (a.): emotion; feeling; (b): the emotional realm of love. [1200-50; Middle English, fr. Old French, fr. Latin affectio]. (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Affections:

Affective; Affect:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• ‘affective (see affect): of or pertaining to the affections [the emotions, the feelings; esp. feelings as opp. to reason; the passions]; emotional’. (Oxford Dictionary).
• ‘affective: relating to, arising from, or influencing feelings or emotions: emotional [of or relating to emotion]; expressing emotion’. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
• ‘affective: (psychology) influenced by or resulting from the emotions; concerned with or arousing feelings [susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities] or emotions; emotional’. (American Heritage® Dictionary).
• ‘affective: characterised by emotion; affectional, emotive’. (WordNet 2.0).

• ‘affect: (psychol.) an emotion, a mood; (affectless: without emotion, incapable of feeling emotion)’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Affective; Affective Tone

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• affective (adj.): caused by or expressing feelings; emotional; causing emotion or feeling; [e.g.]: “It was an affective scene which brought tears to the audience”; not to be confused with effective (adj.): producing the intended result; [e.g.]: “Her effective speech caused many to volunteer”; actually in force; [e.g.]: “The new law becomes effective on January 1st”. ~ (Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree).

• affective (adj.): 1. influenced by or resulting from the emotions; {emotive (=relating to affects}; 2. concerned with or arousing feelings or emotions; emotional; (adv.): affectively; affectionally; (n.): affectivity, affectiveness; {affectional; affections (=feelings or emotions}. [curly-bracketed insert added] ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• affective (adj.): 1. affecting or exciting emotion; suited to affect; 2. pertaining to the affections; emotional; affective quality: one of those qualities of bodies by which they directly affect the senses; often improperly extended to other properties of bodies; 3. (in psychology): relating to, characterised by, or consisting of affection: as, the affective side of the mental life, affective experience;

affective curve (in psychology): a graphic expression of the correlation of some attribute (e.g., intensity, quality) of affection with some attribute of stimulus or sensation; affective memory: the revival, in affective terms, of past affective experience;

affective process (in psychology): (a.) an affection; (b.) a mental complex of which affection is characteristic or in which it is dominant;

affective tone[§] (in psychology): affection considered with reference to the sensory or intellectual processes which it accompanies; sometimes, affection considered as an attribute of sensation. (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Footnote:

[§]hedonic tone (as in, “affective tone”, above): an instinctual and thus affective hedonic attraction-aversion discrimination – stemming from primeval feelings of delect⁽*⁾ or disgust bestowed hereditarily – underpins each and every feeling-thought-action which all feeling-beings manifest whenever ‘being’ itself (‘me’ at the core of ‘my’ being) is present-to-itself as an affective/psychic ‘presence’ within.

⁽*⁾delect (v.;rare): to delight or take pleasure in something; also, to be a source of pleasure or delight; in later use also with object (reflexive): to gratify oneself. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Put succinctly: every feeling-being’s experience or state of being – including that feeling-being’s emotions, passions, calentures, mood, sentiment, temper/ humour, and, thusly, emotionally-driven and/or passionally-fed and/or affectively-tinged thoughts – has hedonic tone (a degree of affective pleasantness or unpleasantness a.k.a. affective pleasure or displeasure).

The Four Affect-Free States of Matter:

There are neither instinctual passions nor feeling-beings formed thereof in the four affect-free⁽⁰¹⁾ states of matter (mass/energy), inasmuch there is no fear in solids, for instance, or any aggression in liquids, and neither is there nurture in gases, for example, nor any desire in plasma⁽⁰²⁾ either.

⁽⁰¹⁾affect (n.): 1. feeling or emotion; 2. (psychiatry): an expressed or observed emotional response; 3. (obsolete): inward disposition or feeling. [1350-1400; Middle English, from Latin affectus]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

⁽⁰¹⁾affect (n.): the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion; the experiencing of affective and emotional states; [e.g.]: “she had a feeling of euphoria”; “he had terrible feelings of guilt”; “I disliked him and the feeling was mutual”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

⁽⁰²⁾plasma, also plasm (n.): plasmas are produced by very high temperatures, as in the sun and other stars, and also by the ionisation resulting from exposure to an electric current, as in a fluorescent light bulb or a neon sign; plasma is distinct from solids, liquids, and gases (adj.): plasmatic, plasmic. [from Late Latin, ‘image, figure’, from Greek plásma, from plássein, ‘to form’, ‘to mould’, ‘something moulded or formed’]. [emphasis added] ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary).

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