EMOTIONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emotionality mean? 

• EMOTIONALITY (noun)
  The noun EMOTIONALITY has 1 sense:

1. emotional nature or quality

  Familiarity information: EMOTIONALITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMOTIONALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotional nature or quality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

emotionalism; emotionality

Hypernyms ("emotionality" is a kind of...):

trait (a distinguishing feature of your personal nature)

Attribute:

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

hot (extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm)

cold (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion)

warm (psychologically warm; friendly and responsive)

cool (psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emotionality"):

drama (the quality of being arresting or highly emotional)

demonstrativeness (tending to express your feelings freely)

affectionateness; fondness; lovingness; warmth (a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love)

drippiness; mawkishness; mushiness; sentimentality; sloppiness; soupiness (falsely emotional in a maudlin way)

heat; passion; warmth (the trait of being intensely emotional)

temperament (excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly))

excitability; excitableness; volatility (being easily excited)

Antonym:

unemotionality (absence of emotion)

Derivation:

emotional ((of persons) excessively affected by emotion)

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

emotional (determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason)

emotional (of or pertaining to emotion)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of excessively intense and superficial emotionality, attention seeking behavior, seductive appearance and speech, self dramatization and/or theatrical behavior.

(Histrionic Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)