emotionalism

noun
/ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/UK/ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/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 Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English emotionalism From emotional + -ism.

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

Definitions

  1. An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner

    An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics.

    • to infuse into Judaism new vision, or rather to re-awaken the dormant emotionalism and mystic strain
    • 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 […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for emotionalism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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