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Webster 1913 Edition
Emotionalism
E-mo′tion-al-ism
,Noun.
The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
Definition 2024
emotionalism
emotionalism
English
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. [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 […].
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 304:
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External links
- emotionalism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- emotionalism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911