emotionalists

noun

plural of emotionalist
as in Don Quixotes

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  1. idealists
  2. dreamers
  3. romantics
  4. utopians
Noun
  • Independent bookselling, rarely a way to get rich, is a meeting ground for idealists — for young people with a sense of mission, retirees embarking on a new life or middle-aged people no longer satisfied with their careers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 May 2026
  • Both a business and a calling Independent bookselling, rarely a way to get rich, is a meeting ground for idealists — for young people with a sense of mission, retirees embarking on a new life or middle-aged people no longer satisfied with their careers.
    — Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 27 May 2026
Definition of idealists
Noun
  • But in recent history, the Spanish national soccer team has repeatedly wrecked the plans of dreamers and screenwriters.
    — Filip Bondy, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026
  • But even as Moon landings, space shuttles, and reusable rockets seized the headlines, Link, along with a stubborn handful of engineers, explorers, and flat-out dreamers, kept plumbing the ocean instead.
    — Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 July 2026
Definition of dreamers
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  • Now these two romantics, who remain at large, are being looked for by the Leicestershire Police.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • This is a space for artists, dreamers, romantics, and those looking to step into a slice of old-world Paris.
    — Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 29 May 2026
Definition of romantics
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  • The utopians invent paradise and the dystopians invent hell.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
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