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emotionality

American  
[ih-moh-shuh-nal-i-tee] / ɪˌmoʊ ʃəˈnæl ɪ ti /

noun

  1. emotional state or quality.

    the emotionality of the artistic temperament.


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Etymology

Origin of emotionality

First recorded in 1860–65; emotional + -ity

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

And so I was like, I need something to kind of just twist the knife a little bit deeper, open up some kind of emotionality that I didn’t have before.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

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

Thus on both sides there was a certain nervous instability, an uncontrollable wayward emotionality.

From Essays in War-Time Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock

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