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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It taints every good emotion that you were feeling before it happened.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
A smile or a frown may reveal more than emotion alone.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
“I’ve lived a life where I needed to understand emotion at a very young age,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
"Life is precious. Hundreds of people have died but I survived," the father of two told AFP, his voice choked with emotion.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Zheng’s face screwed up, as if he was trying to hold back some emotion.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
His release brought a flood of emotions he had kept buried in prison.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Tempers and emotions flared - despite a warning from the Speaker, Edwin Poots, to mind their manners - amid shouting across the packed benches.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Researchers also observed higher levels of 'Firmicutes' bacteria, a broad group of microbes that has previously been associated with positive emotions in females.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
Playing Nikki, who, under the spell of the One Wish Willow displays extreme emotions, was exactly the kind of acting challenge she needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
This was too much; there were too many emotions warring within him at once.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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