emotively
- adverb
- /ɪˈmoʊtɪvli/
- So you can't really be surprised—or even dismayed—that so many people respond emotively to your propagandizing for nuclear.
Examples
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10 scholars have additionally argued that insider researchers, unlike outsiders, are more likely to have difficulty "intellectually and emotively" distancing themselves from the research group. 11 In contrast to insider researchers, outsider researchers see themselves as being better equipped to provide objective accounts of the research population.
Academic text (2009) -
One that utilizes unfounded, emotively charged data to confound the greater public to ruin.
Blog text (23) -
We no longer know how to respond to the work, either cognitively or emotively...
Academic text (1998) -
But his understanding of this importance remains self-serving and emotively contained, and so does his relation with Bartram.
Academic text (1992) -
These emotively charged ideas of inheritance, ancestry and descent, place or territory of origin, and the sharing of kinship.
Academic text (2005) -
Formal choices are elements and relations in the film that are the intended means to secure those points and purposes, in the way that the aforementioned ensemble of choices enables Wilder to make his point both cognitively and emotively.
Academic text (1998) -
When she told her story, she spoke emotively about the struggles she faced growing up.
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The speaker emotively described the impact of the disaster on the community, urging everyone to help.
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In the film, the character emotively expressed her feelings of loss and love, resonating with the audience.
Synonyms
In a way that shows strong feelings
In a way that shows very strong feelings and great excitement
Acts in a way that shows strong interest or feeling
With tears to show that someone feels sad
In a way that shows deep pain or longing
In a way that makes you feel moved or very sad
Makes people feel deep sadness or pity
In a way that makes you feel sad or moved
In a way that shows warm feelings about people or the past
Shows deep feeling and moves people
In a way that shows feelings and thoughts clearly
In a very warm and emotional way that shows strong feeling
In a way that shows strong feeling
In a way that feels very painful or shocking
In a way that shows too much feeling to seem real
In a clear, open way that shows strong feeling
In a way that brings strong images and memories to mind
In a way that relates to feelings
Very brightly like a light, or showing strong feeling on someone's face
In a moving way that makes people feel sad or touched
In a way that shows a strong wish for something
In a warm, honest way that shows real feeling
Excites people and makes them want to act
In a way that makes people feel strong emotion and excitement
In a way that makes a strong emotional and lasting impression
In a way that makes people feel very sad and cry
In a way that makes people feel very sad
In a very sad and fake way that feels too strong
Causes people to feel very moved or delighted
Antonyms
How Emotional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emotively comes from the word emotion, which originally meant 'to move' and is the same idea behind the everyday word move. So to speak or write emotively is to try to 'move' people's feelings or to show strong feeling.