Affecting or exciting emotion; suited to affect.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    Pertaining to the affections; emotional.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    In psychology, relating to, characterized by, or consisting of affection: as, the affective side of the mental life; affective experience.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    A mental complex of which affection is characteristic or in which it is dominant.