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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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 • May 29, 2018
Zita Johann, beauteous Austrian-born importation from Manhattan, is a convincing emotionalist, serious and big-eyed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the squabble had been going on for some time, in walked another great emotionalist, David Lloyd George.
From Time Magazine Archive
The emotionalist, too, is no longer on safe ground in protesting his miracles of conversion.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Begbie, Harold
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