emotion
Usage
What are other ways to say emotion?
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.
Example Sentences
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Art requires distance, and Tanner is so genuinely in the grip of intense family emotion that this father and son sometimes seem more real than theatrically compelling.
From Los Angeles Times
Internal dialogue helps people organize ideas, weigh choices, and make sense of emotions.
From Science Daily
Yet they mustered small smiles and waves walking into campus after the long absence, grappling with an array of emotions.
From Los Angeles Times
“Nothing, hijica. I’m sure it is the emotion of leaving our home. At night, the pain and the sadness catch up with me.”
From Literature
“Sometimes, when she doesn’t want to communicate or articulate her emotions or feelings, I think that this natural outdoor play gives her a sense of words that she can’t express,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
