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Expressive vs Emotionable - What's the difference?

expressive | emotionable |

As adjectives the difference between expressive and emotionable

is that expressive is effectively conveying thought or feeling while emotionable is (rare|of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.

expressive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

    • Antonyms

    * inexpressive * unexpressive

    Derived terms

    * expressiveness

    Related terms

    * expressivity

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    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