emotive

Etymology

adj

  1. Of or relating to emotion.
  2. Appealing to the emotions.
    He was the kind of man to whom some human object for pouring out his heart upon—were it emotive or were it choleric—was almost a necessity. 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge
  3. (grammar) Expressing an emotion.

noun

  1. (grammar) A word or construct that expresses an emotion.

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