emotionality
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- hyperemotionality noun
- overemotionality noun
Etymology
Origin of emotionality
Example Sentences
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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
For all its emotionality, the dialogue can be a little flat, a little stiff, a little cornball.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 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
And most of all, he played the emotionality of it, which I found to be really compelling.
From Salon • Sep. 22, 2024
More than speech, if its primitive element of emotionality be omitted, more than the primitive language of gesture, music is a natural mode of expression.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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