Word family noun emotion emotionalism adjective emotional ≠ unemotional emotive verb emote adverb emotionally emotively
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishemotionalisme‧mo‧tion‧al‧is‧m /ɪˈməʊʃənəlɪzəm $ ɪˈmoʊ-/ noun [uncountable] EMOTIONALa tendency to show or feel too much emotionExamples from the Corpus
emotionalism• Do you suppose he has to accuse us of aggression and pull out all stops on cheap emotionalism?• Like the ring of the bell there is an authentic note which differentiates these sentiments from emotionalism or sentimentality.• Juries make decisions in criminal cases based on emotionalism.• They assume that any such challenge could only come from people corrupted by soapy emotionalism with a deep hostility to science. 