emotionalism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: e=mo=tion=al=ism

CIDE DICTIONARY

emotionalism, n. 

 The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

emotionalism

abstraction, abulia, agitability, alienation, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, blood and thunder, catatonic stupor, combustibility, compulsion, dejection, demonstrativeness, depression, detachment, edginess, elation, emotional appeal, emotional instability, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity, eruptiveness, euphoria, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, folie du doute, histrionics, human interest, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, indifference, inflammability, insensibility, irascibility, irritability, latent violence, lethargy, love interest, making scenes, mania, melancholia, melodrama, melodramatics, mental distress, nervousness, nonrationalness, obsession, pathological indecisiveness, perturbability, preoccupation, prickliness, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, sensationalism, sensitivity, skittishness, startlishness, stupor, tempestuousness, theatricality, theatrics, tic, touchiness, twitching, unreasoningness, unresponsiveness, violence, visceralness, withdrawal, yellow journalism