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emotional, a.|ɪˈməʊʃənəl|
[f. emotion + -al1.]
1. Connected with, based upon, or appealing to, the feelings or passions.
1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 645 He [sc. Plato] adverts only to those genera which form the basis of our great moral and emotional (or as the Germans say, aesthetic) classifications. 1847Grote Greece ii. xvi. III. 285 Every musical mode had its own peculiar emotional influences. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 6 Uncoloured..with the emotional weaknesses of humanity. 1862Shirley in Nugae Crit. vi. 282 The use of emotional language. 1875Ouseley Harmony Pref. 7 Others..treat Music as..only an emotional art. 1875W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 24 One may deem that the lack of emotional bias which left him contented with the mere principle of parsimony as a criterion of universal truth was really due to a defect in the active or impulsive part of his mental nature. 1910Yeats Let. 23 Feb. (1954) iv. 549 The stage, where we say a man is a ‘character actor’ meaning that he builds up a part out of observation, or we say that he is ‘an emotional actor’ meaning that he builds it up out of himself. 1936Discovery July 201/1 If we say or do something to the subject which causes him to experience emotional stress..we find, after a pause of nearly two seconds, that the [electrical] resistance drops. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 242 One of the young men..came to my office in a state of emotional stress.
2. Liable to emotion; easily affected by emotion. Also in philosophical sense, characterized by the capacity for emotion. Also absol. quasi-n.
1857Mrs. Gaskell C. Brontë (1860) 9 The natives of the West Riding..are not emotional. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. 384 She [Mrs. Barrett Browning] speaks especially to the emotional in woman. 1884A. Hind in Athenæum 19 Apr. 497/1 Soul..ceases to operate qua emotional and appetitive soul.
▸ emotional quotient n. a person's emotional state or capacity, as quantified; (Psychol.) = emotional intelligence quotient n. at emotional intelligence n. Compounds; abbreviated EQ.
1941N.Y. Times 28 Sept. x. 3/2 The thing they miscalculate is the *emotional quotient..of an audience. Some people, to be sure, are sentimental sponges..but the majority, we are convinced, have a definite saturation point. 1950J. S. Plant Envelope xvi. 203 We can raise the question whether another generation will not find the emotional quotient as congenitally determined as the intelligence quotient. 1985Sat. Evening Post (Nexis) Apr. 36, I sensed the rising of Elizabeth's emotional quotient. She was looking at the hunter and wearing her mink smile. 1997Sci. Amer. Apr. 26/1 It's not enough to be smart anymore. That's the sobering message from the folks behind the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory, which is being billed as the world's first commercially available test for measuring ‘emotional intelligence’. |