emotionality
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- hyperemotionality noun
- overemotionality noun
Etymology
Origin of emotionality
Example Sentences
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The script leans so heavily into cloying emotionality that, in its climax, everyone dissolves into tears.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
“A lot of us tend to suppress emotionality versus run to it. Your first love exploits it in a complete way that you’re not accustomed to.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
As the field has grown, Benítez and colleagues wanted to quantify animal behavior researchers' perceptions of the taxonomic distribution of animal emotionality.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024
The opportunity to see that on screen, to experience it in a film with music and to feel the emotionality of it was important.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
William James, in a passage that is frequently quoted, calls attention also to the danger of acquiring a chronic emotionality.
From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton
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