emotionalize
Make it sentimental
To emotionalize is to give an emotional quality to something, or to treat something in an emotional rather than rational way.
A speaker might emotionalize an issue to sway an audience: The campaign emotionalized the debate over immigration.
The word often carries a faintly negative connotation, suggesting manipulation or excess sentiment where cooler analysis might serve better.
Express clearly, or well-spoken
- conveyCommunicate or transport
- voiceSound from throat
- communicateExchange thoughts with others
- revealMake something visible
verbalize · vent · pour out · externalize · channel · release · share · unburden
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- sensationalizeExaggerate for impact
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
exaggerate · overact · embellish · overblown · hyperbolic · stagey · hammy · performative
articulate
Express clearly, or well-spoken
- conveyCommunicate or transport
- voiceSound from throat
- communicateExchange thoughts with others
reveal · verbalize · vent · pour out · externalize · channel · release · share · unburden · emote
theatrical
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- sensationalizeExaggerate for impact
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
histrionic · exaggerate · overact · embellish · overblown · hyperbolic · stagey · hammy · performative · amplify
heighten
Increase in degree
stir · inflame · provoke · arouse · evoke · charge · kindle · ignite · animate · galvanize
feelings
Emotional responses experienced internally
passion · fervor · ardor · heart · soul · affect · mood · tenderness · vulnerability · warmth
sway
Rock back and forth
appeal to · pander · weaponize · spin · politicize · propagandize · inflame · agitate · incite · stoke
emotionalizerationalize
Explain with invented reasons
intellectualize · analyze · objectify · depersonalize · think through
emotionalizeneutralize
Cancel an effect
desensitize · cool down · temper · flatten · detach