emotional intelligencen.
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1849 J. Harris Man Primeval iii. 96 As an emotional intelligence to whom the creative revelation is made, he contemplates objects.
1873 St. Pauls Mag. Feb. 224 Man is an emotional intelligence as well as an erect, bimanous mammal.
2. Perceptiveness and skill in dealing with emotions and interpersonal relationships; (now usually) spec. (originally Psychology) the capacity to be aware of, manage, and express one's emotions, and to handle a variety of interpersonal situations in an intelligent, judicious, and empathetic manner.Popularized as a concept in the specific sense by Daniel Goleman's book Emotional Intelligence (see quot. 1995).
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > emotional perception > [noun]
sentimentc1374
feelinga1425
feelc1450
apprehension1605
sensibleness1605
sensea1616
sensibility1634
emotional intelligence1872
1872 Boston Daily Advertiser 16 Oct. 1/9 Schumann's ‘Carnival’..was given..with complete dramatic and emotional intelligence.
1881 Proc. Literary & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 35 47 The adequately educated man has nothing, in the last resort, to guide and govern his decision of moral questions but his reasoning and emotional intelligence.
1938 W. A. White Puritan in Babylon i. vii. 62 Not only was her social experience wider than his, her emotional intelligence was keener.
1956 Jrnl. Politics 18 591 The first postulate of jural significance of the Eskimo is that spirit beings, and all animals by virtue of possessing souls, have emotional intelligence similar to that of man.
1990 P. Salovey & J. D. Mayer in Imagination, Cognition & Personality 9 189 We define emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to guide one's thinking and actions.
1995 D. Goleman Emotional Intelligence iii. 44 There is, as yet, no single paper-and-pencil test that yields an ‘emotional intelligence score’ and there may never be one.
2000 Computer Weekly 21 Sept. 80/2 Human resources departments are now testing for emotional intelligence.
Compounds
emotional intelligence quotient n. originally Psychology a score in a standardized test designed to assess a person's emotional intelligence; abbreviated EQ.
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1995 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) 8 Oct. e5/4 What's your ‘emotional intelligence’ quotient?
1999 Treehouse Canad. Family Sept. 40/1 Nowadays the hot buzz-phrase in psychologists' offices and corporate workshops is EQ: emotional intelligence quotient.
2001 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 4 July c12 If a person with low EQ (emotional intelligence quotient) doesn't lose his job, he may get stalemated or frozen in a position because he doesn't have the soft skills to lead a team or build alliances and relationships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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