Impassioned vs Industrious - What's the difference?

Impassioned is a related term of industrious.

is that impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent while industrious is hard-working and persistent; worksome.

*empassioned

(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.

(en adjective)

Hard-working and persistent; worksome.

I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

* See also

* industriousness

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