Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The tendency to display emotion freely or to rely on or place too much value on emotion.
- noun Undue display of emotion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being emotional, or of being subject to emotion; tendency to emotional excitement.
- noun The practice of working upon the emotions; the disposition to substitute superficial emotion for deeper feeling or right purpose.
- noun The expression of emotion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cultivation of an
emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun emotional nature or quality
Etymologies
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Examples
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Americans must focus on reason and civility over contrived irrational, fear driven emotionalism from the shrill right wing.
'Tea Party Express' trucks on with tour aimed at health care 2009
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Mr. Hodges’ misplaced emotionalism is his own problem.
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His failure to leave, once those valid identification was give to him, shows that he was the one caught up, in emotionalism.
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I think that's called emotionalism; a very sad quality when aiming for intelligent writing.
John Roberts says: Under Rehnquist "the method of analysis and argument shifted to the more solid grounds of legal argument." Ann Althouse 2009
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So what they would argue is that all Religions are primitive superstitions that came about to explain the world in pre-scientific times believed based on no evidence but tradition and emotionalism, that is irrational, and teaches us to think in irrational terms.
Richard Dawkins is a religious fanatic Janet Ursel 2008
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Though she's played dozens of memorable shows here over the decades, she can still recall the emotionalism of her 1979 Seattle debut at the Paramount.
The Seattle Times 2010
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And is NASA the ONLY government agency that provokes this kind of emotionalism?
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008
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And is NASA the ONLY government agency that provokes this kind of emotionalism?
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008
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| Reply is NASA the ONLY government agency that provokes this kind of emotionalism?
Repugnant Behavior on the Part of One NASA Employee - NASA Watch 2008
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The basic contention of the original column, which I guess started this process of pitting you and Ed against me in what has turned into a thought-provoking argument, went beyond "emotionalism" versus "logic."
Irrational conservatism David 2007
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