Emotional and Repressed

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Emotional adjective - Having or expressing great depth of feeling.

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Repressed and emotional are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Repressed" instead an adjective "Emotional".

Repressed adjective - Not excessively showy.

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Emotional and repressed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emotional" instead an adjective "Repressed".

P-21 has deep emotional scars and constantly stuggles with cognitive dissonance, particularly a repressed desire to kill Blackjack for raping him and killing his lover.

Source: Dysfunction Junction
Instead, there is one major trauma — which, when touched upon, opens up a heaving wall of repressed guilt and grief, and renders the mobster an emotional wreck for weeks.

Source: Single-Issue Psychology
The cerebral, repressed Nessa finds a rare emotional outlet in her power over Mari, a power the knight thrives upon (and which arguably saves her life when she goes up against Viper).

Source: Brains and Bondage

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