emotionalism
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, /iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
Noun
emotionalism (countable and uncountable, plural emotionalisms)
- An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 304:
- Yet once the emotionalism of those ‘great gusts of words’ had been flensed, the flesh and bones of the programme looked disappointingly like the mixture as before […].
Related terms
Further reading
- “emotionalism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “emotionalism”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.