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emotional | maenad |

As an adjective emotional

is of or relating to the emotions.

As a noun maenad is

a female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.

emotional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the emotions.
  • emotional crisis
  • Characterised by emotion.
  • Determined by emotion rather than reason.
  • emotional decision
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion.
  • emotional speech
  • Easily affected by emotion.
  • She’s an emotional person.
  • Readily displaying emotion.
  • emotional greeting

    Synonyms

    * demonstrative * effusive * sentimental * temperamental

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple * emotionalise (also emotionalize) * emotionalism * emotionally * * *

    maenad

    English

    (wikipedia maenad)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Greek mythology) A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.
  • * 1919 ,
  • *:Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a Maenad . She was desire.
  • An excessively wild or emotional woman.
  • Derived terms

    * maenadic * maenadism

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