Excitative vs Excitive - What's the difference?
excitative | excitive |
(archaic) excited
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, title=A Williams Anthology, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Our own sense of danger, together with the imaginative effect wrought upon our excitive minds by the dancing candlelight and the awesome shadows of the still house, gave a strange relish to our childhood reading. }}
Serving or tending to excite; excitative.
* 1818 , John Armstrong, Practical illustrations of the scarlet fever, measles, pulmonary consumption, and chronic diseases
As adjectives the difference between excitative and excitive
is that excitative is that causes excitation while excitive is (archaic) excited.As a noun excitive is
(archaic) that which excites; an excitant.excitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation
- What I have denominated the common excitive fever, is a febrile affection common to almost every climate, but particularly to that of Great Britain