hot-button issue

1. 1.

   an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions

   Synonymsgut issue

   Broaderissue

Questions about hot-button issue

What does hot-button issue mean?

hot-button issue means "an issue that elicits strong emotional reactions".

What is another word for hot-button issue?

Close synonyms include gut issue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hot-button issue a common word?

hot-button issue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.