different between emotional vs maenad

English

Etymology

emotion +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m????n?l/, /??m???n?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??mo???n?l/, /??mo??n?l/, /i?mo???n?l/
• Rhymes: -????n?l

Adjective

emotional (comparative more emotional, superlative most emotional)

1. Of or relating to the emotions.

   emotional crisis

   emotional lift

2. Characterised by emotion.
3. Determined by emotion rather than reason.

   emotional decision

4. Appealing to or arousing emotion.

   emotional speech

5. Easily affected by emotion.

   She’s an emotional person.

6. Readily displaying emotion.

   emotional greeting

Synonyms

• demonstrative
• effusive
• sentimental
• temperamental

Derived terms

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

emotional (comparative emotionaler, superlative am emotionalsten)

1. emotional

Declension

Related terms

• Emotion

Further reading

• “emotional” in Duden online

English

Etymology

From Latin maenas (“bacchant”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (mainás, “raving, frantic”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (maínomai, “be furious”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mi?.næd/

Noun

maenad (plural maenads or maenades)

1. (Greek mythology) A female follower of Dionysus, associated with intense reveling.
   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 30

     Blanche Stroeve was in the cruel grip of appetite. Perhaps she hated Strickland still, but she hungered for him, and everything that had made up her life till then became of no account. She ceased to be a woman, complex, kind and petulant, considerate and thoughtless; she was a Maenad. She was desire.

2. An excessively wild or emotional woman.

Derived terms

• maenadic
• maenadism

Translations

Anagrams

• anadem