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emotionality

[ ih-moh-shuh-nal-i-tee ]

/ ɪˌmoʊ ʃəˈnæl ɪ ti /

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noun

emotional state or quality: the emotionality of the artistic temperament.

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Origin of emotionality

First recorded in 1860–65; emotional + -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM emotionality

hy·per·e·mo·tion·al·i·ty, nouno·ver·e·mo·tion·al·i·ty, noun

Words nearby emotionality

emotional eating, emotional illness, emotional intelligence, emotionalism, emotionalist, emotionality, emotionalize, emotional labor, emotional labour, emotional literacy, emotionally correct

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How to use emotionality in a sentence

A certain combination in this class produces the trait of "emotionality," or superficial feeling and sympathy.
How to Read Human Nature|William Walker Atkinson
The fact must be told in brief sentences, with a total absence of emotionality.
Literature and Life|William Dean Howells
But this very discipline has resulted, in other persons, in an explosive emotionality.
Quaker Hill|Warren H. Wilson
All these things—vanity, emotionality, romanticism, courtship—are poor training for the home.
The Nervous Housewife|Abraham Myerson

The Jewish home reverberates with emotionality and largely through this attitude of the Jewish housewife.
The Nervous Housewife|Abraham Myerson