emotional vs probative

emotional

adj
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion. 

  • Determined by emotion rather than reason. 

  • Of or relating to the emotions. 

  • Easily affected by emotion. 

  • Readily displaying emotion. 

  • Characterised by emotion. 

noun
  • An emotional person 

probative

adj
  • Tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade someone of the truth of an allegation. 

How often have the words emotional and probative occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )