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emotionality

n. 1 The state or quality of being emotional. 2 (context psychology English) The observable component of emotion.

WordNet
emotionality

n. emotional nature or quality [syn: emotionalism] [ant: unemotionality]

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Emotionality

Emotionality is the observable behavioral and physiological component of emotion. It is a measure of a person's emotional reactivity to a stimulus. Most of these responses can be observed by other people, while some emotional responses can only be observed by the person experiencing them. Observable responses to emotion (i.e., smiling) do not have a single meaning. A smile can be used to express happiness or anxiety, a frown can communicate sadness or anger, and so on. Emotionality is often used by psychology researchers to operationalize emotion in research studies.

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He seems to have shifted down from his high gear of the past few days, that breakneck emotionality embracing joy in his work, love of his family, grief at losing our father.

Somehow, I supposed, the paradox of the syntonic comma gave rise to pleasure and emotionality.

Renaissance poetry, full of a clotted and frustrated emotionality, translating the Psalms, capable on sight of turning any passage of the Bible from Latin to French and then from French to English.

They were at the time put down to such things as politeness, rudeness, meanness, flashness, tiredness, emotionality, or the lateness of the hour, and completely forgotten about on the following morning.