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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

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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

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

We are the ones who are supposed to be mature enough to respond to the emotionality behind these protests, however diluted they may be by ill-timed requests for nut milk.

From Slate May 2, 2024

That is in part true, but it is also true that excessive emotionality is a high-grade injury, for emotional discharge is habit forming.

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham

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