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affiliative

affiliative adjective: tending to promote social cohesion.

Adjective

affiliative

  1. tending to promote social cohesion
    • Earlier scoring systems, which failed to clearly differentiate content and structure, tended to misscore as stage 3 reasoning that was in fact structurally more advanced but that focused on affiliative content.1994, Bill Puka, Moral Development: New research in moral development, page 11

Words formed from affiliative

Questions about affiliative

What does affiliative mean?
Affiliative means tending to promote social cohesion.
What part of speech is affiliative?
Affiliative is an adjective.

Words near affiliative in the dictionary

  1. affiliateship
  2. affiliateships
  3. affiliating
  4. affiliation
  5. affiliations
  6. affiliative
  7. affiliatively
  8. affiliatory
  9. affiling
  10. affimer
  11. affimers

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