emotionality
- noun
- /ɪˌmoʊʃəˈnælɪti/
- The emotionality in her speech moved everyone in the audience to tears.
- negative emotionality
- positive emotionality
- emotionality and regulation
I was, I was closed off from my emotionality before that.
- I was, I was closed off from my emotionality before that.
- So REM sleep seems to be where we uncouple the potential for emotionality between various experiences.
- Histrionic personality disorder is more of a disorder of emotionality, dramatics and attention seeking.
- So within the story for both of you, how does, how does emotionality enter?
- You have to presume that, well, I don't know if less emotionality would be akin to more enlightenment.
- And I think jazz started this attempt to push that basic sort of palette of emotionality further.
- And also there seems to be some degree of emotionality to it that sounds strikingly similar to what we know dreams are like.
- They want to translate that behave that, that sort of emotionality into action like we talked about.
- But really what I, what I felt the most was the, was the drama, the emotional emotionality is that word.
Examples
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In general, sympathy has been linked to intense emotionality and high regulation.
Academic text (1998) -
His writing captures the emotionality of grief and loss beautifully.
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I was, I was closed off from my emotionality before that.
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You are the perfect person to be talking about emotionality.
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We should be able to control its spread because of the emotionality of everyone on matters of morality.
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Do not be overcome by emotionality!
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If we had listened to and addressed this problem in the right way and without emotionality... we would not be at this point!
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And so it's, it's the emotionality of the human brain that's one of our biggest challenges, right?
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Their heightened emotionality may overwhelm them unless they are able to find appropriate outlets.
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Finally, there is initial evidence that adults' self-reported positive emotionality is related negatively to personal distress.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
The way a person shows feelings on their face or in their voice
The act of showing very strong feelings, often more than needed
Strong and complex feelings shown in art, writing, or by a person
Strong feelings that make someone act with great energy and care
The ability to feel and show emotions
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emotionality comes from emotion, which comes from the Latin root movere meaning 'to move', and you can see the same root in motion and move. So emotionality is the quality of being moved by strong feelings — it describes how much something or someone 'moves' you inside.