emotionally

From emotional +‎ -ly.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, /ɪˈməʊʃənli/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃənəli/, /iˈmoʊʃənəli/

emotionally (comparative more emotionally, superlative most emotionally)

1. In an emotional manner; displaying emotion.
   • 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, page 164:

     Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

2. Regarding emotions.

   Physically, it was easy, but emotionally it was the hardest thing I've ever done.

• emotionally unstable personality disorder