What does it mean to 暑苦しく語る?


> 同人について暑苦しく語り過ぎたんでしょう？それで相手をドン引きさせてしまって

How does 暑苦しく work here? The first thought I had was that it meant passionate,
but 熱 is the one associated with passionate, not 暑.




[暑]{あつ}[苦]{くる}しい means "hot, damp and suffocating / uncomfortable."

If someone says 「暑苦しい」 in a muggy summer afternoon, s/he describes the
physical feeling in the weather.

暑苦しい is also used to describe mental feelings in some situations, like the
case of the sentences in your question.

The nuance of [暑]{あつ}[苦]{くる}しく[語]{かた}る is that the speaker talks very
passionately, and her/his eager attitude changes the atmosphere in which the
listener feels very uncomfortable because it's too intense for the listener.

In Japanese language, [暑]{あつ}い is used to express a warm/hot **air**
temperature, while [熱]{あつ}い is used to express all other kinds of warm/hot
temperatures.

So, in the physical-feeling case above, someone says 「暑苦しい」 using 暑, because
the high air temperature and the high humidity are making the person feel
uncomfortable.

And in the mental-feeling case in which the speaker did 「暑苦しく語り過ぎた」, the
listener felt that the speaker's emitted extreme passion had been traveling
through the air (toward the listener) changing the atmosphere there, then the
listener felt 「暑苦しい」 about the atmosphere and the source of 「暑苦しさ」 which is
the speaker's passion, or attitude, or both.




[暑]{あつ}[苦]{くる}しい means "hot, damp and suffocating / uncomfortable."

If someone says 「暑苦しい」 in a muggy summer afternoon, s/he describes the
physical feeling in the weather.

暑苦しい is also used to describe mental feelings in some situations, like the
case of the sentences in your question.

The nuance of [暑]{あつ}[苦]{くる}しく[語]{かた}る is that the speaker talks very
passionately, and her/his eager attitude changes the atmosphere in which the
listener feels very uncomfortable because it's too intense for the listener.

In Japanese language, [暑]{あつ}い is used to express a warm/hot **air**
temperature, while [熱]{あつ}い is used to express all other kinds of warm/hot
temperatures.

So, in the physical-feeling case above, someone says 「暑苦しい」 using 暑, because
the high air temperature and the high humidity are making the person feel
uncomfortable.

And in the mental-feeling case in which the speaker did 「暑苦しく語り過ぎた」, the
listener felt that the speaker's emitted extreme passion had been traveling
through the air (toward the listener) changing the atmosphere there, then the
listener felt 「暑苦しい」 about the atmosphere and the source of 「暑苦しさ」 which is
the speaker's passion, or attitude, or both.

