emotionalist

[ ih-moh-shuh-nl-ist ]

noun

1. a person who appeals to the emotions, especially unduly.
2. a person easily affected by emotion.
3. a person who bases conduct, or the theory of conduct, upon feelings rather than reason:

   a romantic emotionalist.

Other Words From

• e·motion·al·istic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of emotionalist¹

First recorded in 1865–70; emotional + -ist

Example Sentences

To the true idealist—as distinct from the mere emotionalist with sthetic tastes—selfishness is an impossible prison.

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How amazingly she had altered, in all these weeks, from the one ideaed, feverish little emotionalist she'd been in the autumn!

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The emotionalist, too, is no longer on safe ground in protesting his miracles of conversion.

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But all history shows that the emotionalist cannot compete with the materialist upon his own ground.

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Sir Christopher was not a reformer or a sociologist, nor even an emotionalist either.

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