emotionalism

Other forms: emotionalisms

Definitions of emotionalism

1. noun

   emotional nature or quality
   synonyms: emotionality

   types:

   drama

   the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

   demonstrativeness

   tending to express your feelings freely

   affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth

   a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love

   drippiness, mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness

   falsely emotional in a maudlin way

   heat, passion, warmth

   the trait of being intensely emotional

   temperament

   excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly)

   excitability, excitableness, volatility

   being easily excited

   tenderness

   a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling

   uxoriousness

   foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife

   corn

   something sentimental or trite

   schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz

   (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

   sentimentalism

   a predilection for sentimentality

   fieriness

   a passionate and quick-tempered nature

   boiling point

   being highly angry or excited; ready to boil over

   type of:

   trait

   a distinguishing feature of your personal nature