emotionalists

noun

plural of emotionalist
as in Don Quixotes

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  1. idealists
  2. dreamers
  3. romantics
  4. utopians
Noun
  • Its officials view questions of morality as a costly sideshow, the remit of woolly-minded idealists who do not understand how the world works.
    — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Witty, bitter, flamboyant, and emotionally grounded, the dialogue swings, delightfully, between intimate exchanges and grandiloquent soliloquies, capturing the vulnerability of idealists in the face of evil.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of idealists
Noun
  • Harbach’s cast of strivers and dreamers included dazzling baseball shortstop Henry Skrimshander, his mentor Mike Schwartz, and Pella Affenlight, who made up a love triangle.
    — Malcolm Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The youth of the country, along with some dreamers and fighters, were the ones pushing it forward little by little.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of dreamers
Noun
  • The upcoming Super Bowl will be on Valentine’s Day, meaning this is the one time that the romantics in your life will stop watching men crashing into each other.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Sorry to all the hopeless romantics, but the answer is TAP-DANCED.
    — Sean McGowan, New York Times, 18 Sep. 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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