English

Adjective

emotionable ‎(comparative more emotionable, superlative most emotionable)

1. (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, p. 24:

     His was the genuine Celtic temperament—poetic, excitable, emotionable, unreasoning.

   • 1929, Robert Seymour Bridges, The Testament of Beauty, p. 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 9789042918122, p. 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]

Translations

Synonyms

• emotional, passionate, touchy-feely

References

1. ↑ See "emotionable" in Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.