What does "emotionalism" mean?

An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics.

What is a synonym for "emotionalism"?

Common synonyms include: emotionality, abstraction, abulia, agitability, alienation, anxiety.

Pronounced //ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m//.

//ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Noun

1
An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. countable, uncountable
"Yet once the emotionalism of those ‘great gusts of words’ had been flensed, the flesh and bones of the programme looked disappointingly like the mixture as before […]."
2
emotional nature or quality wordnet

"To Buddhists, an elevated person reduces emotionalism."

From emotional + -ism.

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