Dictionary of Psychology / Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language

• Abreaction — (Psychoanalysis) A liberating emotional discharge whereby an individual releases the tension of a repressed psychic trauma by consciously reliving the original event and its associated affective states.
• Affect — A fundamental psychological state with intense dynamics and sudden onset, manifested as a powerful emotional reaction accompanied by vegetative and expressive motor changes. In psychology, it denotes the observable component of an emotional response.
• Affectivity — The complex total of psychic processes (affects, emotions, sentiments, passions) reflecting the relations between a person and the surrounding world as subjective experiences. It represents a foundational dimension of human personality.