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emotive Adjective tending or designed to arouse emotion
USAGE: Emotional is preferred to emotive when describing a display of emotion: he was given an emotional (not emotive) welcome. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
emotive adjective 2. moving, touching, affecting, emotional, exciting, stirring, thrilling, sentimental, poignant, heart-rending, heart-warming, tear-jerking (informal) Translationsemotive power → capacité f d'émouvoir or de toucher emotive power → capacità di commuovere |
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| It is in the slow, changed life that follows; in the time when sorrow has become stale, and has no longer an emotive intensity that counteracts its pain; in the time when day follows day in dull, unexpectant sameness, and trial is a dreary routine,--it is then that despair threatens; it is then that the peremptory hunger of the soul is felt, and eye and ear are strained after some unlearned secret of our existence, which shall give to endurance the nature of satisfaction. |
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