emotionalism

English

Etymology

From emotional + -ism.

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Noun

emotionalism (countable and uncountable, plural emotionalisms)

  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, published 2006, page 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 […].

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