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EMOTIONALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Emotional nature or quality
Synonyms:
emotionalism; emotionality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("emotionality" is a kind of...):
trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)
Attribute:
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)
hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)
cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)
warm (psychologically warm; friendly and responsive)
cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emotionality"):
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)
Antonym:
unemotionality (absence of emotion)
Derivation:
emotional ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion)
emotional (of more than usual emotion)
emotional (determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason)
emotional (of or pertaining to emotion)
