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Lovesick vs Impassioned - What's the difference?

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Lovesick is a related term of impassioned.


As adjectives the difference between lovesick and impassioned

is that lovesick is behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love while impassioned is filled with intense emotion or passion; fervent.

lovesick

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of love.
  • Having an aching desire for one's beloved.

    • 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.