emotional excess
Too much sentiment
Emotional excess is feeling or expressing emotion beyond what a situation warrants—overwrought reactions, theatrical displays, or sentimentality that tips into melodrama.
The phrase often carries disapproval, suggesting someone has lost proportion: The film's emotional excess made it hard to take seriously.
What counts as excess varies by culture and context; one person's genuine passion is another's histrionics.
- cryingEmotional tear release
- ugly cryingUncontrolled, unflattering sobbing
- melodramaSensational, emotionally overwrought drama
- shoutingVocally projecting loudly
- over the topExcessively theatrical or extreme
drama queen · overwhelm · catharsis · hysteria · nervous breakdown · gothic literature · euphoria · expressionism · trembling · tragedy · sentimentality · grief · codependency · passion · impulsivity · hyperventilating · despair · clinging
- sentimentalitymawkish, schmaltzy, saccharine, treacly, cloying
- Romantic Dramadoomed love, tragic hero, romantic hero, forbidden love, star-crossed lovers
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
emotional excessemotional restraint
Suppressing outward feeling display
composure · restraint · equanimity · stoicism · sangfroid
emotional excessself-control
Ability to restrain impulses
self-restraint · emotional regulation · containment · measured response · moderation
emotional excessreserve
Supply kept back
reticence · understatement · inscrutability · poker face · stiff upper lip
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