Meanings
- In an emotionalistic manner.
"I must admit," he said, "that the lieutenant, in his emotionalistically human way, has a definite point, Lucifer."
1986, Glen A. Larson, Robert Thurston, chapter 25, in "Die, Chameleon!" (Battlestar Galactica; 12), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL2 more examples
The middle class traveled heavy in that regard, as illustrated by the weightiness of its institutions, the emotionalistically laden nostalgia for past glories, even the furniture and houses encrusted with oddments of misapplied historical styles.
2000, Max Kozloff, “Wittgenstein’s Vienna”, in Cultivated Impasses: Essays on the Waning of the Avant-Garde 1964–1975, Marsilio Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 80Kant interprets moral consciousness intellectualistically while Scheler does so emotionalistically; in addition, we could list here the voluntarists as well as the biologists and the vitalists.
2023, “Part 2. Good and Value”, in The Lublin Lectures and Works on Max Scheler, volume 2, The Catholic University of America Press, translation of original by Karol Wojtyła (in Polish), →ISBN, page 158
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
- Proto-Italic*moweō
- Latinmoveō
- Latinēmoveō
- Vulgar Latin*exmovēre
- Old Frenchesmovoir
- Middle Frenchesmouvoir
- Middle Frenchemotion
- Englishemotion
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishemotional
- Englishemotionalistic
- Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
- Proto-Germanic*līką
- Englishemotionalistically
From emotionalistic + -ally.
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