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Emotional vs Nonemotional - What's the difference?

emotional | nonemotional |

As adjectives the difference between emotional and nonemotional

is that emotional is of or relating to the emotions while nonemotional is not emotional; unrelated to emotion.

emotional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the emotions.
    • emotional crisis
  • Characterised by emotion.
  • Determined by emotion rather than reason.
    • emotional decision
  • Appealing to or arousing emotion.
    • emotional speech
  • Easily affected by emotion.
    • She’s an emotional person.
  • Readily displaying emotion.
    • emotional greeting

    Synonyms

    * demonstrative * effusive * sentimental * temperamental

    Derived terms

    * emotional cripple * emotionalise (also emotionalize) * emotionalism * emotionally * * *

    nonemotional

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-emotional

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not emotional; unrelated to emotion.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 22, Howard Beck, The Knicks Win Again to Remain on a Roll, New York Times citation
    • , passage=By the time the Suns came to Madison Square Garden for another reunion, the only impulse D’Antoni had about his old players was the need to beat them, for purely nonemotional reasons.}}