Meanings
adjectivepseudoemotional (comparative more pseudoemotional, superlative most pseudoemotional)
comparative more pseudoemotional · superlative most pseudoemotional
- Apparently, but not actually, emotional.
Pseudoemotional behaviors such as pouting, temper tantrums and whining usually, and intentionally, diminish encounters.
1981, Walter Kempler, Experiential Psychotherapy Within Families, page 106
Origin
- Ancient Greekψεύδω (pseúdō)
- Ancient Greekψευδής (pseudḗs)
- Middle Englishpseudo-
- Englishpseudo-
- 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
- Englishpseudoemotional
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Chicago
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