Passionable

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Easily moved to intense emotion, quick to be swept up in feeling or ardor
2. Readily inclined to be stirred by strong emotion and to respond with fervor
3. Describing a person or temperament that is susceptible to deep, ardent feeling

Etymology: "Passion" started out as a word for suffering. It comes through Old French from Latin "passio," from "pati," "to suffer" or "to endure." The sense of strong feeling grew out of that root, and the word's Christian meaning, the suffering of Christ, is the older of the two in English. "Passionable" is simply "passion" with the suffix "-able," from Latin "-abilis," meaning "capable of being" or "able to be." So a passionable person is one who is capable of being moved to passion, or easily stirred to strong feeling.

Synonyms: passionate, ardent

Antonyms: dispassionate