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.
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The new head coach underscored that it can be easy for impulse and emotion to take over, but uplifting one another and letting mistakes refine you rather than define you is integral to success.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
There are no tears, but the emotion is clear.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 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
“All of this unprocessed emotion that I used to have in me, I have processed that today through all the work we’ve done.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The idea of it makes me experience the human emotion of panic.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Kirkham also cites play as having "therapeutic value" for exploring our emotions, experiences and memories, but in a safe space.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
But emotions were high, and he didn’t think before he spoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Weight is really a byproduct of somebody’s complex relationships between their thoughts, their emotions, and then the actions that they take to try to regulate or cope,” she added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Scot was Team GB's chef de mission at the Milan-Cortina Games in February and says that "brought back emotions that I had not felt for a long time".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
At that, whatever it was that had been keeping Razi’s emotions in check tore apart.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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