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Definition of Emotionalist
1. Noun. Someone whose thoughts and actions are governed by their emotions rather than by logic ¹
2. Noun. Someone who is abnormally emotional ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emotionalist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotionalist
Literary usage of Emotionalist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"Lessen the amount 11 f caution and seriousness in marriage and the number of
unions calling for divorce surgery will grow." The emotionalist says: " \\Tiat ..."
2. The Yale Review by Yale University, George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1894)
"The emotionalist is influenced by the impression made on him by what he sees and
feels—the visible, the palpable, the direct. The economist looks beyond—not ..."
3. The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America from by Charles Henry Caffin (1907)
"Yet in an artist we customarily overlook both the need and the lack of it, and
are content to regard him as a chartered emotionalist. His training tends to ..."
4. A Musical Motley by Ernest Newman (1919)
"Diderot's anti-emotionalist theory ... seems to have been in part a revolt against
a previous emotionalist theory that had been pushed to absurd extremes. ..."
5. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1888)
"Yet there is not the smallest reason to suppose that this lady—a convinced
emotionalist—was, on this occasion only, simulating in cold blood the violent ..."
6. An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy by John Grote (1870)
"He cannot signify mean to claim exclusive rationality for utilitarianism, assign
no in this sense that, where the emotionalist can give ..."
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