Passionate vs Hotbloodedness - What's the difference?
passionate | hotbloodedness |
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
* Prior
(obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
* 1596 , , II. i. 544:
* 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
(obsolete) To express with great emotion.
* 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
The quality of being hotblooded; passionate rashness.
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As nouns the difference between passionate and hotbloodedness
is that passionate is a passionate individual while hotbloodedness is the quality of being hotblooded; passionate rashness.As an adjective passionate
is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.As a verb passionate
is to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.passionate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
- She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
- 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.Verb
(passionat)- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.
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* * ----hotbloodedness
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