Emotional means full of feeling, or easily moved by it. An emotional farewell, emotional support, don't be so emotional.
The second use is often a criticism, and it is aimed at women far more than at men, which is worth noticing before reaching for it. Emotional labour is the work of managing your feelings as part of a job — a real cost that rarely appears in a job description.
1adjectiveemotionalFull of feeling, or easily moved by it.
“It was an emotional goodbye, and everyone at the airport was in tears.”
emotional is a quality of feeling.
Middle French
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English
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English, today
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From emotion + -al. emotion Borrowed from Middle French emotion, from esmouvoir. Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir (“excite”), based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA