emotionalizationn.
/ᵻˌməʊʃn̩əlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ᵻˌməʊʃn̩l̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ᵻˌməʊʃənl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ᵻˌməʊʃənəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌmoʊʃ(ə)nəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The process of making emotional; the action of imbuing with emotion.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > making or becoming sensitive or tender
tendering1684
emotionalization1876
1876 H. Maudsley Physiol. of Mind vi. 366 To bring the low savage to the level of the cultivated European..a process of emotionalization [would be needed].
1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 820 The mass of men..can only achieve this readjustment of their feelings to their knowledge, this emotionalization of newly acquired fact, by a slow and painful course of adaptation.
1914 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 291/1 It is precisely by this process of transmutation and emotionalization that they bring a given problem down to the level of that man's comprehension.
1973 J. Richards Visions of Yesterday 359/1 We see over and over again the simplification, personalization and emotionalization of issues.
1996 D. Parkin in D. Parkin et al. Politics Cultural Performance p. xxi Their emotionalisation of the social injustice depicted in the play obscures their reasoned judgement of it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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