emotionalism

English

Etymology

From emotional +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, /iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

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 […].

Related terms

• emotivism

Further reading

• “emotionalism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “emotionalism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• laminotomies