"flat affect" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: flat affects [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} flat affect (plural flat affects)
  1. (medicine) Lack of emotion, or of apparent emotion. Wikipedia link: flat affect Categories (topical): Medicine Related terms: anhedonia, labile affect Translations (Translations): spłycenie afektu [neuter] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-flat_affect-en-noun-DtZrX769 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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