a. [f. prec. + -AL.]
1. Connected with, based upon, or appealing to, the feelings or passions.
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xvi. III. 285. Every musical mode had its own peculiar emotional influences.
1860. Froude, Hist. Eng., VI. 6. Uncoloured … with the motional weaknesses of humanity.
1862. Shirley, in Nugæ Crit., vi. 282. The use of emotional language.
1875. Ouseley, Harmony, Pref. 7. Others … treat Music as … only an emotional art.
2. Liable to emotion; easily affected by emotion. Also in philosophical sense, characterized by the capacity for emotion. Also absol. quasi-sb.
1857. Mrs. Gaskell, C. Brontë (1860), 9. The natives of the West Riding … are not emotional.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. 384. She [Mrs. Barrett Browning] speaks especially to the emotional in woman.
1884. A. Hind, in Athenæum, 19 April, 497/1. Soul … ceases to operate qua emotional and appetitive soul.
