Word Meanings - CORDIALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Relation to the heart. That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted. Sir T. Browne. 2. Sincere affection and kindness; warmth of regard; heartiness. Motley.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CORDIALITY)
- Warmth
- Ardor
- glow
- fervor
- zeal
- heat
- excitement
- intensity
- earnestness
- cordiality
- animation
- eagerness
- vehemence
- geniality
- sincerity
- passion
- irascibility
- emotion
- life
Related words: (words related to CORDIALITY)
- WARMTH
The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement; - PASSIONAL
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n. - GENIALITY
The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners. - INTENSITY
The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental - ANIMATION
1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of - PASSIONLESS
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson. - FERVOR
1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller. 2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak. Syn. -- Fervor, Ardor. Fervor is a boiling heat, and - SINCERITY
The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness. I protest, in the sincerity of love. Shak. Sincerity is a duty no less plain than important. Knox. - WARMTHLESS
Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge. - EMOTIONALIZE
To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude. - IRASCIBILITY
The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness. - EMOTIONALISM
The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner. - EMOTIONED
Affected with emotion. "The emotioned soul." Sir W. Scott. - PASSIONATE
1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior. - PASSIONARY
A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton. - EARNESTNESS
The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving. - PASSIONTIDE
The last fortnight of Lent. - EAGERNESS
1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness. - EMOTION
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions - EXCITEMENT
A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. (more info) 1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - INANIMATION
Want of animation; lifeless; dullness. - OUTPASSION
To exceed in passion. - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness. - REANIMATION
The act or operation of reanimating, or the state of being reanimated; reinvigoration; revival. - IMPASSIONABLE
Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion. - INSINCERITY
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions - IMPASSIONATE
Strongly affected. Smart. - EMPASSION
To move with passion; to affect strongly. See Impassion. Those sights empassion me full near. Spenser. - IMPASSION
To move or affect strongly with passion. Chapman. - DISPASSIONED
Free from passion; dispassionate. "Dispassioned men." Donne. - EXANIMATION
Deprivation of life or of spirits. Bailey.