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emotionlike

emotionlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of emotion.

Adjective

emotionlike (comparative more emotionlike, superlative most emotionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of emotion.
    • On the other hand, we have emotionlike experiences (such as slight irritation or boredom) almost all of the time.1999, Sally Planalp, Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
    • These aspects of emotion—expressive behavior, physiological process—have parallels in the emotionlike behaviors of other species. Yet human emotion is also unique, and shaped by language[…]2013, Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson, Douglas T. Kenrick, Evolution and Social Psychology, page 133

Forms of emotionlike

comparativemore emotionlike
superlativemost emotionlike

Origin of emotionlike

From emotion + -like.

Questions about emotionlike

What does emotionlike mean?
Emotionlike means resembling or characteristic of emotion.
What part of speech is emotionlike?
Emotionlike is an adjective.

Words near emotionlike in the dictionary

  1. emotionizes
  2. emotionizing
  3. emotionless
  4. emotionlessly
  5. emotionlessness
  6. emotionlike
  7. emotionology
  8. emotions
  9. emotive
  10. emotive hardcore
  11. emotively

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