emotionalism

emotionalism
    n 1: emotional nature or quality [syn: {emotionality},
         {emotionalism}] [ant: {emotionlessness}, {unemotionality}]
    

Emotionalism \E*mo"tion*al*ism\, n.
   The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to
   regard things in an emotional manner.
   [1913 Webster]
    

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "emotionalism":
      abstraction, abulia, agitability, alienation, anxiety,
      anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apathy, blood and thunder,
      catatonic stupor, combustibility, compulsion, dejection,
      demonstrativeness, depression, detachment, edginess, elation,
      emotional appeal, emotional instability, emotionality,
      emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity,
      eruptiveness, euphoria, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness,
      folie du doute, histrionics, human interest, hypochondria,
      hysteria, hysterics, indifference, inflammability, insensibility,
      irascibility, irritability, latent violence, lethargy,
      love interest, making scenes, mania, melancholia, melodrama,
      melodramatics, mental distress, nervousness, nonrationalness,
      obsession, pathological indecisiveness, perturbability,
      preoccupation, prickliness, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance,
      sensationalism, sensitivity, skittishness, startlishness, stupor,
      tempestuousness, theatricality, theatrics, tic, touchiness,
      twitching, unreasoningness, unresponsiveness, violence,
      visceralness, withdrawal, yellow journalism