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Noun: emotional intelligence
  1. The ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behaviour.
    "At the same time, as employers recognize that their profit depends on the emotional intelligence of their employees, they become amenable to launching programs that will increase it."

Type of: intelligence

Encyclopedia: Emotional intelligence