Usually means: Minimal emotional expression in face.
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  1. flat affect: Wiktionary
  2. Flat affect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  2. Flat affect: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. flat affect: Medical dictionary
  6. Flat affect: Drug Medical Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (medicine) Lack of emotion, or of apparent emotion.

Similar:
affectlessness, athymia, nonemotion, unemotionality, nonexpression, apathy, feelinglessness, emotionlessness, nonfeeling, indifference, more...

Opposite:
expressive, animated, emotive, lively, passionate

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Similar:
affectlessness, athymia, nonemotion, unemotionality, nonexpression, apathy, feelinglessness, emotionlessness, nonfeeling, indifference, more...

Opposite:
expressive, animated, emotive, lively, passionate



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