emotionalismnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən.əl.ɪ.zəm/us/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl.ɪ.zəm/disapprovingshowing too much emotion
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Feelings - general words
- aura
- charged
- emotional
- feeling
- free-floating
- himself
- in your heart of hearts idiom
- infect
- love-hate relationship
- myself
- ripple
- sentiment
- sentimental
- sentimentalism
- soul
- soulful
- stab
- tinge
- tingle
- trip
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Examples from literature
- It was the first evidence of his pathologic emotionalism and vindictiveness.
- Nor is the connection between alcoholism and emotionalism so far-fetched as it seems.
- Quiet love, not feverish emotionalism.
- There was, however, running through her character a vein of what might be called emotionalism.
- They have an eighteenth-century restraint, and freedom from emotionalism and gush.