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Impassioned vs Effusive - What's the difference?

impassioned | effusive |

As adjectives the difference between impassioned and effusive

is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while effusive is gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression).

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.

    • effusive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • gushy; unrestrained, extravagant or excessive (in emotional expression)
  • (archaic) pouring, spilling out freely; overflowing
  • * Alexander Pope
    • washed with the effusive wave
  • (of igneous rock) extrusive; having solidified after being poured out as molten lava

    • Derived terms

    * effusively * effusiveness