Word Study
emotionalism
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 journalismFor further exploring for "emotionalism" in Webster Dictionary Online