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Impassioned vs Heartfelt - What's the difference?

impassioned | heartfelt | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between impassioned and heartfelt

is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while heartfelt is felt or believed deeply and sincerely.

impassioned

English

Alternative forms

*empassioned

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.9:
  • *:She was empassioned at that piteous act, / With zealous envy of the Greekes cruell fact / Against that nation […].
  • *1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , VI:
  • *:The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister.

    • heartfelt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * heart-felt

    Adjective

  • Felt or believed deeply and sincerely.
    • She expressed her heartfelt sympathies at the death of his mother.

    Synonyms

    * genuine, sincere, true

    Derived terms

    * heartfeltly * heartfeltness