expressive

Given that the state being articulated is not strictly necessarily emotional, other linguists prefer the term expressive, so that's what I'll run with.

Notes From The Geek Show 2008

In this case our ordinary system of habits -- those which we call expressive of our "real selves" -- inhibit or quench (keep inactive or partially inactive) those habits and instinctive tendencies which belong largely in the past.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

And that the literal signification has not altogether been lost in the spiritual and metaphorical use of it, as a term expressive of religious experience, is quite plain from many of the cases in which it occurs.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

In its place in the brain it is like a book in a library; and as the book offers on its back a title expressive of its contents, so we label each convolution with its proper title.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 5 1856

Will any of your correspondents be good enough to explain the circumstances which gave rise to the adoption of "farina" as a term expressive of baseness and disparagement?

Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

FOUTRE, _s. _ a term expressive of the greatest contempt.

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. Alexander Leighton 1837

We are almost afraid to say what Mr. Waffles 'means were, but we really believe, at the time he came of age, that he had 100,000_l. _ in the funds, which were nearly at' par '-- a term expressive of each hundred being worth a hundred, and not eighty-nine or ninety pounds as is now the case, which makes a considerable difference in the melting.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

On the other hand, if the husband would secure a cheerful obedience, and cherish, instead of spoil, an amiable temper, or regulate a peevish one, let his wishes be reasonable in themselves, and uttered without a look or a term expressive of an insolent consciousness of superiority.

Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I Francis Augustus Cox 1818

Those learned and able divines began their labours by arranging, in the most systematic order, the various great and sacred truths which God has revealed to man; and then reduced these to thirty-two distinct heads or chapters, each having a title expressive of its subject.

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

` awful 'woman, _I_ should say; that's only a term expressive of a different kind of admiration.

True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Theodore P. Wilson