overemotionality
Too much sentiment
Overemotionality is the tendency to react with excessive or disproportionate emotion.
The term usually carries criticism—implying someone's feelings are out of scale with the situation: His overemotionality made every disagreement into a crisis.
It often appears in contexts where emotional restraint is valued, and has historically been used to dismiss women's responses as irrational.
Easily hurt by remarks
- touchyEasily upset or offended
- tearfulProne to weeping
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- reactiveTending to respond
fragile · defensive · oversensitive · hypersensitive · prickly · raw · bruised · wounded
Sensational, emotionally overwrought drama
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
- exaggerationOverstating beyond reality
- overreactingDisproportionate emotional response
soap-opera · hyperbole · scene-making · outburst · spectacle · grandiose · attention-seeking · theatrics
Catastrophic loss of control
- explosiveProne to sudden detonation
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
- frenziedWildly out of control
- hystericalEmotionally out of control
distraught · frantic · agitated · beside oneself · panicky · turmoil · volatile · unstable
Inclined to cry
- maudlinExcessively tearful sentiment
- saccharineExaggeratedly sentimental
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- gushingFlowing out forcefully
effusive · schmaltzy · mushy · soppy · teary-eyed · cloying · tender-hearted · soft-hearted
thin-skinned
Easily hurt by remarks
- touchyEasily upset or offended
- tearfulProne to weeping
- vulnerableOpen to attack
reactive · fragile · defensive · oversensitive · hypersensitive · prickly · raw · bruised · wounded · taking offense
melodrama
Sensational, emotionally overwrought drama
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
- exaggerationOverstating beyond reality
overreacting · soap-opera · hyperbole · scene-making · outburst · spectacle · grandiose · attention-seeking · theatrics · overblown
meltdown
Catastrophic loss of control
- explosiveProne to sudden detonation
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
- frenziedWildly out of control
hysterical · distraught · frantic · agitated · beside oneself · panicky · turmoil · volatile · unstable · erratic
weepy
Inclined to cry
- maudlinExcessively tearful sentiment
- saccharineExaggeratedly sentimental
- nostalgicLonging for the past
gushing · effusive · schmaltzy · mushy · soppy · teary-eyed · cloying · tender-hearted · soft-hearted · misty-eyed
overemotionalitystoicism
Uncomplaining acceptance of difficulty
emotional restraint · impassivity · composure · equanimity · coolness
overemotionalityrationality
Sound judgment quality
levelheadedness · cool-headedness · dispassion · level-headedness · objectivity
over, emotion, emotional, emotionally, emotionality, overemotional, emoting, emoted, emotes