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emotionable

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English emotionable From emotion + -able.

  1. derived from -able English -able English emotionable From emotion + -able
  2. derived from emotion Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor
  3. derived from *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor✻

Definitions

  1. Particularly expressive of or affected by emotion.

    • His was the genuine Celtic temperament—poetic, excitable, emotionable, unreasoning.
    • Delicat and subtle are the dealings of nature whereby the emotionable sense secretly is touch'd to awareness
    • Consequently man was an emotionable being and this emotion was the basis for morality.

The neighborhood

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