emotiveness

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English

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Etymology

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From emotive +‎ -ness.

Noun

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emotiveness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being emotive
    • 2009 July 1, Nate Chinen, “1 Charmer, 5 Albums, and Still a Teenager”, in New York Times[1]:
      This happened a lot, beginning with a lounge-ready take on “It Might as Well Be Spring” and ending with a travesty of R&B emotiveness on Percy Mayfield’s “Please Send Me Someone to Love.”