emotionalism

From emotional +‎ -ism.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, /iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

emotionalism (countable and uncountable, plural emotionalisms)

1. An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. [from 19th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 304:

     Yet once the emotionalism of those ‘great gusts of words’ had been flensed, the flesh and bones of the programme looked disappointingly like the mixture as before […].

• emotivism

• emotionalism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• emotionalism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• laminotomies