emotionalism

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Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
• (GA) IPA: /ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, /iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

Noun

emotionalism

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 2006, p. 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

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