emotional

adj
/ɪˈməʊʃənəl/UK/ɪˈmoʊʃənəl/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English emotional From emotion + -al.

  1. derived from -ālisbor
  2. derived from -albor

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to the emotions.

    • emotional crisis
    • emotional lift
    • One of the biggest shifts is that much of the conversation about emotional labor has left its original sphere of the workplace and moved to the home.
  2. Characterized by emotion.

  3. Determined by strong emotion rather than purely logical reasoning.

    • emotional decision
    • The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology).
  4. + 5 more definitions
    1. Appealing to or arousing emotion.

      • emotional speech
    2. Easily affected by emotion.

      • She’s an emotional person.
    3. Readily displaying emotion.

      • emotional greeting
    4. Overwhelmed by mixed emotions, moved, almost tearful.

      • She became emotional hearing about the passing of her mother.
      • I felt so emotional seeing my three-legged poodle win first prize.
    5. An emotional person

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at emotional. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at emotional. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at emotional

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA