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[ adjective ] determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
Examples "it was an emotional judgment" Used in print (Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)Anyone 's identification with an international struggle , whether warlike or peaceful , requires absurd oversimplification and intense emotional involvement . That much of what he calls folklore is the result of beliefs carefully sown among the people with the conscious aim of producing a desired mass emotional reaction to a particular situation or set of situations is irrelevant . (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)The race_problem has tended to obscure other , less emotional , issues which may fundamentally be even more divisive . (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Since emotional reactions in the higher vertebrates depend_on individual experience and are aroused in man , in_addition , by complex symbols , one would expect that the hypothalamus could be excited from the cortex . Even more complex and obviously cortically induced forms of emotional_arousal could be elicited in monkey A on seeing monkey B ( but not a rabbit ) in emotional stress . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of more than usual emotion
Examples "his behavior was highly emotional" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)But in our case - and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration , nor are we given to emotional outbursts - the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come_close to wrecking several more . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The significant things in it , at the higher religious levels , are the inner emotional , mental , and spiritual occurrences that fill the pressing human needs of self-preservation , self pacification , and self completion . |
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[ adjective ] of or pertaining to emotion
Examples "emotional health" "an emotional crisis" Used in print (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)First of the problems attacked would be fatigue and emotional tension , since action relieves both . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] extravagantly demonstrative
Examples "insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship" "a large gushing female" "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" Related terms |
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