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Impassive vs Impassioned - What's the difference?

impassive | impassioned |

As adjectives the difference between impassive and impassioned

is that impassive is having, or revealing, no emotion while impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

impassive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having, or revealing, no emotion.
  • Still or motionless.

    • Synonyms

    * apathetic, phlegmatic

    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.