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affect display

affect display noun: external show of emotion or affect, such as by voice, expression, gesture, or posture, whether voluntary or not.

Noun

affect display (plural affect displays)

  1. External show of emotion or affect, such as by voice, expression, gesture, or posture, whether voluntary or not.
    • We are not satisfied with this account (it is particularly weak in explaining the facial affect display of happiness) but Darwin also had trouble with […].1970, Paul Ekman et al., “The Repertoire of Non-verbal Behavior”, in Mouton Classics: From Syntax to Cognition, from Phonology to Text, page 843
    • […] Darwin (as is implicit in the title of his book The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals) saw facial affect display as the external expression of an internal emotional state, […].1987, Donald L. Nathanson, The Many Faces of Shame, page 16

Forms of affect display

pluralaffect displays

Questions about affect display

What does affect display mean?
Affect display means external show of emotion or affect, such as by voice, expression, gesture, or posture, whether voluntary or not.
What part of speech is affect display?
Affect display is a noun.
What is the plural of affect display?
The plural of affect display is affect displays.

Words near affect display in the dictionary

  1. affeard
  2. affeared
  3. affearing
  4. affears
  5. affect
  6. affect display
  7. affect displays
  8. affectabilities
  9. affectability
  10. affectable
  11. affectated

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