emotionalism

/iˈmoʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

UK: /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/

emotionalism

English Noun

Definition

An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics.

From emotional + -ism.

"Yet once the emotionalism of those ‘great gusts of words’ had been flensed, the flesh and bones of the programme looked disappointingly like the mixture as before […]."