emotional literacy

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noun

the ability to deal with one's emotions and recognize their causes

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Mississippi’s nickname comes from the magnificent trees that grow there. What is it?

The Sunflower State

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Words nearby emotional literacy

emotionalist, emotionality, emotionalize, emotional labor, emotional labour, emotional literacy, emotionally correct, emotional support animal, emotive, emotive meaning, emotivism

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Example sentences from the Web for emotional literacy

Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
How Pulp Fiction Saved Literature|Wendy Smith|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Human evolution has left men as deeply wired for emotional connections to children as women are.
How Good Dads Can Change the World|Gary Barker, PhD, Michael Kaufman|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
She had been, he says, the backbone of their family and losing her shifted their entire emotional landscape.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST

This breach is an extraordinary emotional drag on the exhausted population.
In One Corner of Syria, Christmas Spirit Somehow Manages to Survive|Peter Schwartzstein|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was, of course, the suppressed emotional energy finding another outlet.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
First, the act of prayer is emotional, and so calms the man who prays, for much of his excitement is worked off.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
Artistic and emotional by temperament, he early threw himself heart and soul into literature.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
I was blinded by passion; but that my emotional depths were not even stirred was manifested by the rapidity of my convalescence.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton
What have we to do with such dreamy, self-centred, emotional holiness, here and now in London?
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford

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