Émotionnelles

Émotionnelles is the feminine plural form of the French adjective émotionnel, meaning related to or arising from emotions. It is used to describe feminine plural nouns, such as réactions émotionnelles, réponses émotionnelles, or attitudes émotionnelles. The corresponding masculine plural form is émotionnels, used with masculine plural nouns like états émotionnels or biais émotionnels. In usage, émotionnelles appears across disciplines such as psychology, sociology, literature, and media to characterize processes, states, or expressions connected to emotion.

Grammatically, émotionnelles agrees in gender and number with the noun it modifies. It often appears in phrases that refer to emotional responses, feelings, or expression. While it conveys a broad sense of affect, it does not stand alone as a noun; the noun for the generalized concept of emotion remains émotions or emotion, depending on context.

Étymologie et nuance: the adjective émotionnel derives from the noun émotion, which itself comes from Latin emotio. The suffix -nel forms adjectives meaning “pertaining to,” so émotionnel literally means “pertaining to emotion.” The feminine plural ending -nelles yields émotionnelles. In broader writing, the term can carry a neutral descriptive tone or emphasize subjective, affective aspects of a phenomenon, contrasting with cognitive or rational dimensions.

Notes: emploi et cooccurrences peuvent varier selon registre; dans le langage courant, on privilégie des expressions comme « réactions émotionnelles » ou « états émotionnels » selon le genre du nom qui suit. Le adverbe correspondant est émotionnellement.