emotionalist
Americannoun
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a person who appeals to the emotions, especially unduly.
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a person easily affected by emotion.
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a person who bases conduct, or the theory of conduct, upon feelings rather than reason.
a romantic emotionalist.
Other Word Forms
- emotionalistic adjective
Etymology
Origin of emotionalist
Example Sentences
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Former president William Howard Taft minced no words in attacking Brandeis: “He is a muckraker, an emotionalist for his own purposes, a socialist, prompted by jealousy, a hypocrite … a man of infinite cunning … of great tenacity of purpose, and in my judgment, of much power for evil.”
From Washington Post
The opposite of a stoic, he’s rap’s premier emotionalist, a quality that’s occasionally made him the object of ridicule but has also made him very, very rich.
From Slate
I have heard that there is a sannyasi in Bengal, an emotionalist, a disciple of Keshav Bh�rati and a fraud on the public.
From Project Gutenberg
How amazingly she had altered, in all these weeks, from the one ideaed, feverish little emotionalist she'd been in the autumn!
From Project Gutenberg
After the squabble had been going on for some time, in walked another great emotionalist, David Lloyd George.
From Time Magazine Archive
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