emotionality
Depth of feeling
Emotionality is the quality of being emotional—the tendency to experience or express feelings readily.
It can describe a person's temperament Her emotionality made her both a gifted artist and a difficult partner or characterize a particular response The emotionality of his reaction surprised everyone.
The word often carries a faintly clinical tone, as if observing emotion from a distance.
Responsiveness to stimuli
- irritabilityProneness to agitation
- excitabilityProneness to strong reactions
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
- impulsivenessActing without forethought
agitation · overreaction · trigger · defensiveness · touchiness · thin-skinned · moodiness · temperament
Intense emotional intensity
- vehemenceForceful emotional passion
- ardorIntense emotional warmth
- passionIntense emotional drive
- zealIntense driving devotion
fire · volatility · turbulence · explosiveness · extremity · ferocity · fury · rage
Warm emotional attachment
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- joyIntense positive emotion
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
grief · love · happiness · despair · hope · fear · anger · guilt
Open display of emotion
- effusivenessUnrestrained emotional expression
- theatricalityExaggerated, showy manner
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- exuberanceLively, unrestrained enthusiasm
dramatics · vividness · uninhibitedness · openness · transparency · expansiveness · communicativeness · gesticulation
Concern for others' distress
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
perceptiveness · intuition · receptivity · warmth · gentleness · caring · heartfelt · moved
sensitivity
Responsiveness to stimuli
- irritabilityProneness to agitation
- excitabilityProneness to strong reactions
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
impulsiveness · agitation · overreaction · trigger · defensiveness · touchiness · thin-skinned · moodiness · temperament · fickleness
fervor
Intense emotional intensity
zeal · fire · volatility · turbulence · explosiveness · extremity · ferocity · fury · rage · heat
affection
Warm emotional attachment
- nostalgiaLonging for the past
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- joyIntense positive emotion
sorrow · grief · love · happiness · despair · hope · fear · anger · guilt · shame
demonstrativeness
Open display of emotion
- effusivenessUnrestrained emotional expression
- theatricalityExaggerated, showy manner
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
exuberance · dramatics · vividness · uninhibitedness · openness · transparency · expansiveness · communicativeness · gesticulation · vocalization
compassion
Concern for others' distress
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
- understandingMental comprehension of something
attunement · perceptiveness · intuition · receptivity · warmth · gentleness · caring · heartfelt · moved · touched
- personality traitsextraversion, agreeableness, introvert, neuroticism, temperament
- sensitivitysensitivity, sensitive, hypersensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitive
- excitabilityexcitability, nervousness, jitteriness, jumpiness, restlessness
- femininitygracefulness, gentleness, softness, dainty, delicate
emotionalityunemotionality
Lack of visible feeling
emotionlessness · stoicism · impassivity · coldness · detachment
emotionalityrationality
Sound judgment quality
dispassion · reason · logic · intellectualism · objectivity
emotionalityequanimity
Unshakable mental steadiness
composure · placidity · serenity · calmness · tranquility
emotion, emotional, unemotional, emotive, emoticon, overemotional, emoting, emoted, emotes