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English
Etymology
From emotion + -able.
Adjective
emotionable (comparative more emotionable, superlative most emotionable)
- (rare, of a person or group or of their behavior or faculties) Particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.
1887, Emily Lawless, Hurrish: A Study, page 24:His was the genuine Celtic temperament—poetic, excitable, emotionable, unreasoning.
1929, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty, page 529:Delicat and subtle are the dealings of nature
whereby the emotionable sense secretly is touch'd
to awareness
2007, Ulrich Libbrecht, Within the Four Seas: Introduction to Comparative Philosophy, →ISBN, page 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."[1]
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References
- ^ See "emotionable" in Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.