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emotive, a.|ɪˈməʊtɪv|
[f. L. ēmōt- ppl. stem of ēmovē-re to move out + -ive.]
1.
†a. Causing movement (obs.).
b. Tending to excite or capable of exciting emotion.
1735Brooke Univ. Beauty iv. 121 Eternal art, Emotive, pants within the alternate heart. 1883H. M. Kennedy tr. Ten Brink's E.E. Lit. 38 The emotive passionate quality of epic diction.
2. a. Pertaining to the emotions, or to emotion.
1830Macintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 160 Distinction between the percipient and what, perhaps, we may venture to call the emotive or the pathematic part of human nature. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (1870) I. 484 Actions..at once, conscious, rational, and emotive. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. vii. lii. 492 It prepared her emotive nature for a deeper effect.
b. Eminently capable of emotion, emotional.
1881Mrs. Praed Policy & P. II. 30 One must feel with the emotive, see with the spiritual.
c. Philos. and Lit. Criticism. Expressing or arousing feeling or emotion; not descriptive. emotive theory: the view that ethical and value judgements are not assertions or reports (even of the speaker's attitudes), but are expressions of feeling or attitude and prescriptions of action.
1923Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning p. viii, A division of the functions of language into two groups, the symbolic and the emotive. 1936A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic vi. 160 The function of the relevant ethical word is purely ‘emotive’. 1944C. L. Stevenson Ethics & Lang. iii. 59 Emotive meaning is a meaning in which the response (from the hearer's point of view) or the stimulus (from the speaker's point of view) is a range of emotions. 1951Mind LX. 205 The so-called ‘emotive theory’ of value statements.
Hence eˈmotively adv., emotionally. eˈmotiveness, the quality of being emotional. eˈmotivism, the emotive theory or adherence to it. eˈmotivist, one who maintains or accepts the emotive theory. emoˈtivity, the capacity for emotion; also spec. in sense 2 c.
1884Athenæum 5 Apr. 438/1 Thoughts must be emotively expressed before they can become poetry. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xl, Sympathetic emotiveness..ran along with his speculative tendency. 1854Hickok Ment. Philos. 176 Emotivity [is a] term for the capacity of feeling. 1925I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. 131 Words..used symbolically or, scientifically, not figuratively and emotively. 1949Mind LVIII. 39 It is..impossible to ascribe the logically undesirable character of emotivity to classes of sentences en bloc. 1951Ibid. LX. 390 Showing where the Emotivist and the Existentialist go wrong. 1952R. M. Hare Lang. of Morals ix. 144 The ‘emotivity’ of much moral utterance..is only a symptom.. of an evaluative use of words. 1960J. O. Urmson et al. Conc. Encycl. West. Philos. 142/1 Ayer..has since abandoned emotivism. |