Definitions for emotional
ɪˈmoʊ ʃə nlemo·tion·al

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 6 votes

1. emotionaladjective

   determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason

   "it was an emotional judgment"

2. emotionaladjective

   of more than usual emotion

   "his behavior was highly emotional"

3. emotionaladjective

   of or pertaining to emotion

   "emotional health"; "an emotional crisis"

4. aroused, emotional, excited, worked upadjective

   (of persons) excessively affected by emotion

   "he would become emotional over nothing at all"; "she was worked up about all the noise"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. emotionaladjective

   Of or relating to the emotions.

   emotional crisis

2. emotionaladjective

   Characterised by emotion.

3. emotionaladjective

   Determined by emotion rather than reason.

   emotional decision

4. emotionaladjective

   Appealing to or arousing emotion.

   emotional speech

5. emotionaladjective

   Easily affected by emotion.

   She's an emotional person.

6. emotionaladjective

   Readily displaying emotion.

   emotional greeting

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. emotional

   Emotions are mental states brought on by neurophysiological changes, variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. There is currently no scientific consensus on a definition. Emotions are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, or creativity.Research on emotion has increased over the past two decades with many fields contributing including psychology, medicine, history, sociology of emotions, and computer science. The numerous theories that attempt to explain the origin, function and other aspects of emotions have fostered more intense research on this topic. Current areas of research in the concept of emotion include the development of materials that stimulate and elicit emotion. In addition, PET scans and fMRI scans help study the affective picture processes in the brain.From a mechanistic perspective, emotions can be defined as "a positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity." Emotions produce different physiological, behavioral and cognitive changes. The original role of emotions was to motivate adaptive behaviors that in the past would have contributed to the passing on of genes through survival, reproduction, and kin selection.In some theories, cognition is an important aspect of emotion. Other theories, however, claim that emotion is separate from and can precede cognition. Consciously experiencing an emotion is exhibiting a mental representation of that emotion from a past or hypothetical experience, which is linked back to a content state of pleasure or displeasure. The content states are established by verbal explanations of experiences, describing an internal state.Emotions are complex. There are various theories on the question of whether or not emotions cause changes in our behaviour. On the one hand, the physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system. Emotion is also linked to behavioral tendency. Extroverted people are more likely to be social and express their emotions, while introverted people are more likely to be more socially withdrawn and conceal their emotions. Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation. On the other hand, emotions are not causal forces but simply syndromes of components, which might include motivation, feeling, behaviour, and physiological changes, but none of these components is the emotion. Nor is the emotion an entity that causes these components.Emotions involve different components, such as subjective experience, cognitive processes, expressive behavior, psychophysiological changes, and instrumental behavior. At one time, academics attempted to identify the emotion with one of the components: William James with a subjective experience, behaviorists with instrumental behavior, psychophysiologists with physiological changes, and so on. More recently, emotion is said to consist of all the components. The different components of emotion are categorized somewhat differently depending on the academic discipline. In psychology and philosophy, emotion typically includes a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. A similar multi-componential description of emotion is found in sociology. For example, Peggy Thoits described emotions as involving physiological components, cultural or emotional labels (anger, surprise, etc.), expressive body actions, and the appraisal of situations and contexts. Nowadays most research into emotions in the clinical and well-being context focuses on emotion dynamics in daily life, predominantly the intensity of specific emotions, and their variability, instability, inertia, and differentiation, and whether and how emotions augment or blunt each other over time, and differences in these dynamics between people and along the lifespan.

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1. emotional

   Emotional refers to the feelings, sentiments and affective states that a person experiences. It involves the complex state of feeling, resulting in physical and psychological changes that influence our behavior and thoughts. Emotionality encompasses a broad range of feelings such as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, love, etc., and is often associated with mood, temperament, personality, motivation, and disposition.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Emotionaladjective

   pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature

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1. Emotional

   Emotional is the fourth studio album by the Austrian musician Falco released in 1986.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'emotional' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2804

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'emotional' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4339

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'emotional' in Adjectives Frequency: #377

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How to pronounce emotional?

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How to say emotional in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of emotional in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of emotional in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of emotional in a Sentence

1. James Thurber:

   Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

2. Alicia Grandey:

   Employers may want to consider allowing employees to have a little more autonomy at work, like they have some kind of choice on the job, and when the emotional effort is clearly linked to financial or relational rewards, the effects aren't so bad.

3. James Scott:

   Meme Warfare 101: the meme hovers above the syntactical model that has limited man's evolution and expansiveness due to the restrictions of language. The meme introduces that which defies the restrictions of language and cuts to the psycho-emotional core of the individual.

4. John Amanam:

   I became emotional about amputees, they had this feeling of discomfort whenever they were around other people. I saw it as a challenge. If I could give back or solve this need, it would go a long way to ease that emotional trauma and loss of confidence.

5. John Reznikoff:

   When somebody has died, and their estate is being sold, that is typically when their items increase in price, because it's emotional and ephemeral.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=emotional
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Emotional
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/emotional
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=emotional
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=emotional