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Passionate vs Emotionable - What's the difference?

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Passionate is a synonym of emotionable.


As adjectives the difference between passionate and emotionable

is that passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual while emotionable is (rare|of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.

As a noun passionate

is a passionate individual.

As a verb passionate

is (obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

passionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
  • Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
  • * Prior
    • Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
  • (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
  • * 1596 , , II. i. 544:
    • She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
  • * 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
    • Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

    Synonyms

    * (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.

    Related terms

    * passion * passive * passivity * patience * patient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passionate individual.

    • Verb

    (passionat)
  • (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  • (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
  • * 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
    • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

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    emotionable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare, of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) Particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.
  • * 1887 , , Hurrish: A Study , p. 24:
    • His was the genuine Celtic temperament—poetic, excitable, emotionable , unreasoning.
  • * 1929 , , The Testament of Beauty , p. 529:
    • Delicat and subtle are the dealings of nature
    whereby the emotionable sense secretly is touch'd
    to awareness
  • * 2007 , , Within the Four Seas: Introduction to Comparative Philosophy , ISBN 9789042918122, p. 578:
    • Consequently man was an emotionable being and this emotion was the basis for morality.

    Usage notes

    * Unlike the term (emotional), emotionable'' does not seem to have the additional sense "of or pertaining to emotion."See "emotionable" in ''Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

    Synonyms

    * emotional, passionate, touchy-feely

    References