Meaning of EMOTIONALISM
| Pronunciation: | | i'mowshu`nlizum
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| | Definition: | | [n] emotional nature or quality |
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| | Synonyms: | | emotionality |
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| | Antonyms: | | emotionlessness, unemotionality | | |
| | See Also: | | affectionateness, demonstrativeness, drama, excitability, excitableness, fondness, heat, lovingness, mawkishness, passion, sentimentality, temperament, trait, volatility, warmth | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E*mo"tion*al*ism\, n.
The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to
regard things in an emotional manner.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstraction, abulia, agitability, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, blood and thunder, catatonic stupor, combustibility, compulsion, dejection, demonstrativeness, depression, detachment, edginess, elation, emotional appeal, emotional instability, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, eruptiveness, euphoria, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, folie du doute, histrionics, human interest, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, inflammability, insensibility, irascibility, irritability, latent violence, lethargy, love interest, making scenes, mania, melancholia, melodrama, melodramatics, mental distress, nervousness, nonrationalness, obsession, pathological indecisiveness, perturbability, preoccupation, prickliness, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, sensationalism, sensitivity, skittishness, startlishness, stupor, tempestuousness, theatricality, theatrics, tic, touchiness, twitching, unreasoningness, unresponsiveness, violence, visceralness, withdrawal, yellow journalism |
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