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Emotional vs Emotionable - What's the difference?

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Emotionable is a synonym of emotional.



As adjectives the difference between emotional and emotionable

is that emotional is of or relating to the emotions while emotionable is particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.

emotional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the emotions.
    • emotional crisis
  • Characterised by emotion.
  • Determined by emotion rather than reason.
    • emotional decision
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion.
    • emotional speech
  • Easily affected by emotion.
    • She’s an emotional person.
  • Readily displaying emotion.
    • emotional greeting

    Synonyms

    * demonstrative * effusive * sentimental * temperamental

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple * emotionalise (also emotionalize) * emotionalism * emotionally * * *

    emotionable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) Particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.
  • * 1887 , , Hurrish: A Study , p. 24:
    • His was the genuine Celtic temperament—poetic, excitable, emotionable , unreasoning.
  • * 1929 , , The Testament of Beauty , p. 529:
    • Delicat and subtle are the dealings of nature
    whereby the emotionable sense secretly is touch'd
    to awareness
  • * 2007 , , Within the Four Seas: Introduction to Comparative Philosophy , ISBN 9789042918122, p. 578:
    • Consequently man was an emotionable being and this emotion was the basis for morality.

    Usage notes

    * Unlike the term (emotional), emotionable'' does not seem to have the additional sense "of or pertaining to emotion."See "emotionable" in ''Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    Synonyms

    * emotional, passionate, touchy-feely

    References