emotionalism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyetider.

Proto-Italic *moweō

Latin moveō

Latin ēmoveō

Vulgar Latin *exmovēre

Old French esmovoir

Middle French esmouvoir

Middle French emotionbor.

English emotion

English -al

English emotional

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English emotionalism

From emotional + -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, /iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

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Noun

emotionalism (countable and uncountable, plural emotionalisms)

1. An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. [from 19th c.]
   • 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 412:

     to infuse into Judaism new vision, or rather to re-awaken the dormant emotionalism and mystic strain

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 304:

     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 […].

Derived terms

• antiemotionalism

Related terms

• emotivism

Further reading

• “emotionalism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “emotionalism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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