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to emotionalize

to emotionalize

6.7
To make something express strong feelings to affect people
  • verb
  • /ɪˈmoʊʃənəlaɪz/
translation icon : emotivar
  • To create a deeper impact, the film aimed to emotionalize the audience's experience through powerful music and visuals.

All of these things are ways of of ingesting and emotionalizing information that informs our value system.

Examples

  • The teacher encouraged students to emotionalize their essays by including their own feelings and experiences.

  • Wore away the rough edges of his character, emotionalized his mental life.

    Academic text (1991)

  • All of these things are ways of of ingesting and emotionalizing information that informs our value system.

    Film Courage

  • As they orally answered each question, pupils were shown a sad face and a happy face to help them emotionalize the progressive continuum.

    Academic text (1994)

  • If you're asking me to emotionalize well what's happening in me that tell me I need to create these false senses of feelings, I want to know why it works.

  • But I mean, if we're talking about the the compliment to that, a lot of times it's it's the men who are more emotionalized and effeminized.

  • The speaker used personal stories to emotionalize the issue and connect with the audience.

Synonyms

to arouse
vsto emotionalize
57 4.1

Cause a feeling or strong reaction in people

intensifies feelings already present rather than causing them initially
to deepen
vsto emotionalize
52 3.6

Make a feeling or situation stronger

targets stronger feeling expression specifically rather than general strengthening
to inflame
vsto emotionalize
31 5.8

To make people's feelings stronger, especially anger or hate

increases feelings broadly, not limited to anger or hatred
to dramatize
vsto emotionalize
15 4.2

To make something seem more exciting or important than it really is

amplifies real feeling expression rather than theatrical exaggeration
to enliven
vsto emotionalize
6 4.1

Make something more active and interesting

affects feeling intensity specifically rather than adding energy or fun
to vivify
vsto emotionalize
  • Formal
1 8.2

To make something more lively or bright

boosts feeling strength specifically rather than general liveliness
to enflame
vsto emotionalize
6.4

To make feelings like anger or excitement stronger

raises feeling strength generally rather than stressing anger

Antonyms

to suppress
88 5.8

To hold back feelings or reactions

to dull
33 3.4

Cause something to become less sharp, strong or bright

How Emotional

to sensationalize
  • Literature
12 6.8
to dramatize
15 4.2
to emotionalize
6.7
to downplay
59 5.3

Surface Forms

emotionalize infinitive
emotionalized past
emotionalized past participle
emotionalizing present participle
emotionalizes third person singular

Morphology

emotionalize = emotional (transparent) = emotion + al + ize

Formed by adding the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize' to the adjective 'emotional', so the meaning 'make more emotional' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word emotionalize comes from emotion, which means 'feeling', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make'. So, to emotionalize something is to make it full of feeling or to show feelings more strongly.