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valence

[vey-luhns] / ˈveɪ ləns /
NOUN
ability to react with or affect another
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When we talk about something in economic terms, it really doesn’t have much moral valence.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

Audiences from all backgrounds found valence to a story that I found to be more about assimilation than antisemitism.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

Did screaming imply an emotional valence or intent?

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2024

An excited electron also leaves a hole in the underlying valence band -- a mobile vacancy that can be moved through the material like a positive charge carrier.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2024

Egged on by scheming courtiers and generals, relations between Atawallpa and Washkar spent several years swinging through the emotional valence from concealed suspicion to overt hostility.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann



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