'Emotionalism' definitions:
Definition of 'emotionalism'
(from WordNet)
noun
Emotional nature or quality [syn: emotionality, emotionalism] [ant: emotionlessness, unemotionality]
Definition of 'Emotionalism'
From: GCIDE
- Emotionalism \E*mo"tion*al*ism\, n. The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'emotionalism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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