Meanings
adverbnonemotionally (not comparable)
alternative non-emotionally
- not comparableIn a nonemotional way.
Surrogates employed several means for emotionally distancing themselves from the fetus. One was to react to any movement emanating from the belly area nonemotionally.
2010, Elly Teman, Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self, page 75
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- 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
- Englishnonemotional
- Englishnonemotionally
From nonemotional + -ly.
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APA
nonemotionally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonemotionally
MLA
“nonemotionally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonemotionally. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonemotionally,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonemotionally.
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