What does emotive mean?
Definitions for emotive
ɪˈmoʊ tɪvemo·tive
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word emotive.
Princeton's WordNet
affectional, affective, emotiveadjective
characterized by emotion
Wiktionary
emotiveadjective
of, or relating to emotion
emotiveadjective
appealing to one's emotions
Webster Dictionary
Emotiveadjective
attended by, or having the character of, emotion
Freebase
eMOTIVe
eMOTIVe is the third and latest album by American rock supergroup A Perfect Circle. It was released on November 1, 2004, to coincide with the US presidential election.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of emotive in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of emotive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of emotive in a Sentence
It's a very strong public issue and it's quite emotive. As public diplomacy goes it's a very strong gesture.
It is a very cynical thing to say, but I believe that this whole attack is essentially just an environmental cloak that is being put over what is really a deep political agenda, what I've never experienced in the past is where there has been very deliberate misinformation about this project that is being published in an effort to get very rapidly a very emotive social media response.
Whistleblowing can be an emotive issue but if firms have an appropriate regime in place it can enable the firm to identify issues and remedy them before they become a significant regulatory or legal failing.
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
I think it's all personal choice. Hey, if you go straight to the source and are someone like Bob Dylan or John Lennon who made very specific choices about what they chose to do -- that had direct political meaning, that's something that that we haven't touched on. We're a band that mostly, if not entirely, relates to human relations and emotive content that means a damn, and we're very comfortable.
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