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affective tone

affective tone Affective tone, or feeling tone, is the feeling element that accompanies a mental state.

Affective tone, or feeling tone, is the feeling element that accompanies a mental state. In historical psychology, the term was used for qualitative differences in feeling, while pleasure and pain were better treated separately as hedonic tone.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Affective Tone or Feeling Tone” (Affective Tone or Feeling Tone).
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