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Impassioned vs Impassible - What's the difference?

impassioned | impassible |

As adjectives the difference between impassioned and impassible

is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while impassible is (chiefly|theology) unable to suffer, or feel pain.

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.

    • impassible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chiefly, theology) Unable to suffer, or feel pain.
  • Unable to feel emotion; impassive.
  • Incapable of suffering injury or detriment.
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