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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emotive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
highly
▪ Our observation of these, as recordings of the frozen energy of nature, can be highly emotive.
▪ They are expressed in highly emotive language.
▪ Inevitably the issue has proved highly emotive: even in Letheringsett opinion is divided.
▪ Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today, and it remains a highly emotive issue.
▪ Land tenure is a highly emotive, deeply cultural and political issue.
▪ The smoking issue is a highly emotive one.
▪ The destruction of the human face is a highly emotive topic for reasons that are theological as well as psychological.
▪ She has been hampered by her awkward delivery when making speeches on what are often highly emotive subjects.
■ NOUN
issue
▪ Drug use is an emotive issue.
▪ Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today, and it remains a highly emotive issue.
▪ You will find your Surveyor will not have such emotive issues on his mind when he inspects!
language
▪ But he does not use the harsh, emotive language of the Prime Minister.
▪ They are expressed in highly emotive language.
subject
▪ The issue of animal experimentation is an emotive subject with strong views held on both sides.
▪ I know it's an emotive subject but we have a good working relationship with the archaeological unit concerned.
▪ She has been hampered by her awkward delivery when making speeches on what are often highly emotive subjects.
word
▪ In considering the right to live issue, there is a tendency to fight shy of the emotive word of murder.
▪ He was just firing a smokescreen of emotive words and phrases.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an emotive drama
▪ The candidates agreed to avoid emotive issues like abortion and child abuse.
▪ The documentary deliberately uses highly emotive language, talking about "exploitation' and "blackmail'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Admittedly the descriptive technique is a matter of exploiting a ready-made emotive vocabulary.
▪ But he does not use the harsh, emotive language of the Prime Minister.
▪ Furthermore, these viewpoints in this problem situation are very emotive as they have moral and political overtones.
▪ However, we should be wary lest use of such an emotive and pejorative term leads to premature dismissal of legitimate arguments.
▪ In rural areas, with the small stocks identified earlier, the issue of sales can be particularly emotive.
▪ They're the ones that are the most emotive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emotive

Emotive \E*mo"tive\, a. Attended by, or having the character of, emotion.
--H. Brooke. -- E*mo"tive*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emotive

1735, "causing movement," from Latin emot-, past participle stem of emovere "to move out, move away" (see emotion) + -ive. Meaning "capable of emotion" is from 1881; that of "evoking emotions" is from 1923, originally in literary criticism. Related: Emotively; emotiveness.

Wiktionary
emotive

a. 1 of, or relating to emotion 2 appealing to one's emotions

WordNet
emotive

adj. characterized by emotion [syn: affectional, affective]

Wikipedia
Emotive (album)

Emotive (stylized as eMOTIVe) is the third album by American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle. It was released on November 1, 2004 via Virgin Records. Its release coincided with the US presidential election.

Emotive

Emotive may refer to:

  • Emotive (sociology), a sociological term
  • eMOTIVe, a 2004 rock album by A Perfect Circle
  • Emotiv, a company which develops mind-computer interfaces
Emotive (sociology)

“Emotional expressions”, also called “emotives” are an effort by the speaker to offer an interpretation of something that is observable to no other actor (Reddy 1997). If emotions are feelings, emotives are the expressions of those feelings through the use of language, specifically through constructions that explicitly describe emotional states or attitudes. (Luke 2004).

Usage examples of "emotive".

Tawsar nor any of the other Wem within my emotive range are radiating feelings of hostility.

If the distinction which I formerly drew between the Scientific and the Artistic tendencies be accepted, it will disclose a corresponding difference in the Style which suits a ratiocinative exposition fixing attention on abstract relations, and an emotive exposition fixing attention on objects as related to the feelings.

Dolza, if Reno's report was to be believed, had subsequently elected to fold the entire armada to Earthspace, with designs to annihilate the planet before emotive contagion was spread to the remainder of the fleet.

This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.

I had witnessed them in furious disagreement on design issues, but you don't use emotive words like 'hate' about landscape gardening and room layouts.

Rivers and Borrow taught that neurophysiological processes in the mind-body, such as dreaming, promoted the integration of limbic system dramas, thus increasing awareness and encouraging cognitive and emotive areas to merge.

An avalanche of emotive and perceptual experience spread across a universe in which none of this had previously been known.

Bodies were straddling the court’s wrecked fittings, small orange fires gnawed hungrily at various jagged chunks of composite, and hatred was beaming through each of the doors like an emotive X ray.

Day establishes, if ever there was a doubt, that Arnold has the emotive ability of string cheese.