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antiemotional

antiemotional adjective: opposing emotion.

Adjective

antiemotional (comparative more antiemotional, superlative most antiemotional)

  1. Opposing emotion.
    • For two decades he lectured on the emergence of Western lay Zen, arguing against what he saw as the antiemotional bias of monastic Asian Zen in favor of an approach that integrated psychological experience into meditation practice.2009 April 26, Chip Brown, “Enlightenment Therapy”, in New York Times

Forms of antiemotional

comparativemore antiemotional
superlativemost antiemotional

Origin of antiemotional

From anti- + emotional.

Questions about antiemotional

What does antiemotional mean?
Antiemotional means opposing emotion.
What part of speech is antiemotional?
Antiemotional is an adjective.

Words near antiemotional in the dictionary

  1. antiembolism
  2. antiemesis
  3. antiemetic
  4. antiemetics
  5. antiemigration
  6. antiemotional
  7. antiemotionalism
  8. antiemperor
  9. antiemperors
  10. antiemphysemic
  11. antiempire

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