Emotionable
Full definition of emotionable
Adjective
emotionable
- (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 Bridges, The Testament of Beauty, p. 529:Delicat and subtle are the dealings of naturewhereby the emotionable sense secretly is touch'dto 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."
See "emotionable" in Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.