emotion
Usage
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The noun emotion refers to a feeling that is intensified: agitated by emotion. Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing.
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He recalls a moment during the premiere in Berlin when emotion crept up on him.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
All the words she can encapsulate for an emotion, a reaction, a response on her end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
In this tale of an imprisoned queen, her supposedly dead husband, and her struggle against a usurper, brilliantly characterized arias succeed each other like jewels, ratcheting up the emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Responses to a questionnaire also showed that participants in the upright group reported significantly stronger feelings of pride, an emotion associated with a more positive mood.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
She said this without emotion, still looking at me.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
The death of a pet can lead to a flood of emotions, de Carteret says, not least guilt.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
In less than a month, Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison has exhibited a dizzying range of emotions as the goal line for the coveted $111-billion Warner Bros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The scientists then wanted to know whether these same brain regions reacted differently to other emotions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Recent weeks have shown just how much the case continues to stir strong emotions.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Brightbill’s emotions swung wildly from fear to anger to pride in his mother’s courage.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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