emotive
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6.0
- adjective
- /ɪˈmoʊtɪv/
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emotivo
- The film's soundtrack was especially emotive, bringing tears to the audience's eyes.
- emotive therapy
- emotive theory
- emotive expression
Now, what does it mean to have an emotive function?
- Now, what does it mean to have an emotive function?
- I think I would feel more comfortable if it was a moving emotive robot.
- They distinguished mainly between the sort of rational centers and the emotive centers.
- And the way I think about it is not people settling is a very emotive, loaded word.
- So for anyone who's doing this, I'm just adding a disclaimer that this can be emotive, it can be challenging.
- But yeah, it's very emotive and sort of layered and mysterious and all of that.
- And he had formed a school of therapy called Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, REBT.
- But then you mentioned, yes, Albert Ellis, of course, his thing is this, the psychology, rational emotive psychologist.
- expounding his theory of rational emotive thinking. Really, he was the first to say, and it's a very important thing that
Examples
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Indeed, there are many aspects of the law that derive largely from emotive concerns.
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The blog really did give us all a personal and emotive description of the space experience.
Blog text (6) -
And, and, and it comes from an emotive response of some type.
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And it's very much emotive and in your face.
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Connect with something powerful and emotive deep down.
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There are, in all acts of reason, emotive elements in the background.
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And it's, it's an emotive way to grab people's attention.
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One problem with adding an emotive element to moral theory is that emotions are not universal.
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Perhaps the renewed interest in place will encourage more research on this manifestation of emotive association.
Academic text (1994) -
Hatred is an emotive word often associated with feelings of anger and disgust.
Synonyms
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2.1
Showing strong feelings that are easy to see
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2.8
Having very strong feelings about something
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5.8
Being full of strong feelings that show in words or actions
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7.7
Showing very strong feeling that is hard to ignore
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6.8
Relating to feelings or emotions
Showing strong emotion that moves people
Causing strong feelings that make people feel sad or touched
Showing strong emotion, often in a dramatic or poetic way
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emotive is related to emotion and the everyday word move; it comes from the Latin emovere, which meant 'to move out'. So, something emotive 'moves' your feelings and causes strong feelings or reactions.