Emotionalism

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ᵻˈməʊʃ(É™)nÉ™lɪz(É™)m/

Origin

From emotional + -ism.

Full definition of emotionalism

Noun

1. An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. from 19th c.
• 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 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

• emotivism

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