emotive
emotive
adjective
emotively
adverb
emotiveness
noun
emotivity
[ˌiːməʊˈtɪvɪti]
noun
语源
adjective
- arousing or able to arouse intense feeling
激起感情的；令人激动的
animal experimentation is an emotive subject.
动物试验是一个引起激烈争论的问题。
the issue has proved highly emotive.
结果证明这个问题极易引起激烈争论。
■expressing a person's feelings rather than being neutrally or objectively descriptive
表现个人情感的；不客观的
the comparisons are emotive rather than analytic.
这些比较带有个人感情色彩，而不是客观分析。
emotively
adverb
emotiveness
noun
emotivity
[ˌiːməʊˈtɪvɪti]
noun
语源
- mid 18th cent.: from Latin emot- 'moved', from the verb emovere (see emotion)
- The words emotive and emotional share similarities but are not simply interchangeable. Emotive is used to mean ‘arousing intense feeling’, while emotional tends to mean ‘characterized by intense feeling’. Thus an emotive issue is one which is likely to arouse people's passions, while an emotional response is one which is itself full of passion. In sentences such as we took our emotive farewells (taken from the British National Corpus) the word emotive has been used in a context where emotional would be more appropriate
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