emotionallyadverb

emotional | American Dictionary

emotional
adjective
us/ɪˈmoʊ·ʃə·nəl/
connected with or showing feelings:
The mayor made an emotional appeal for aid following the tornado.

emotionally

adverbus/ɪˈmoʊ·ʃə·nəl·i/
The coach appeared emotionally drained after yesterday’s loss.

Examples of emotional

emotional
Pain is described as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.
The emotional meaning, the aesthetic impact of each message, each phrase, have to be understood and characterised.
A central aesthetic component is the use of the voice as an emotional or abstract language.
The older population, in contrast, has kept emotional ties to the rural life.
One way to measure the emotional impact of words is through their effect on autonomic reactivity.
What part of the emotional system was already in place before the evolution of the orbitofrontal?
He notes, however, that some may have a greater emotional response to savoring food than others.
We argue that what people know about their world affects their emotional state.
Coping was sometimes a matter of emotional release, of having ' a good cry ' in private and feeling better for it.
In the second case, the psychodynamic tradition draws attention to the emotional and irrational components of intergenerational relations which have been under-theorised in social gerontology.
Factors affecting the emotional wellbeing of the caregivers of dementia sufferers.
The members of a household play an important role in providing each other with essential ' goods ' such as food, personal care, emotional support and companionship.
In this research both groups of older people had emotional, social and practical needs which were not being met.
Emotional commitment seems to be strong, but emotions may conflict, as may choices about lifestyle and identities.
Negative affectivity : the disposition to experience aversive emotional states.
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