Definition of "emotionalism"

emotionalism

/ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural emotionalisms
1. An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics.
  Quotations
  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 […].
  1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 304