Impassioned vs Heartfelt - What's the difference?
impassioned | heartfelt | Related terms |
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.
Felt or believed deeply and sincerely.
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
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*empassionedAdjective
(en adjective)heartfelt
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* heart-feltAdjective
- She expressed her heartfelt sympathies at the death of his mother.