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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind, high spirits, humor, inclination, individuality, low spirits, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pathos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep sadness |
| Synonyms: | desolation, emotion, feeling, passion, pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, poignance, poignancy, sentiment |
| Notes: | bathos is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Antonyms: | cheer, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | sensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, perception |
| Synonyms: | awareness, consciousness, emotion, gut reaction, impression, passion, response, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, thought, tingle, vibes |
| Main Entry: | sensibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsiveness; ability to feel |
| Synonyms: | affection, appreciation, awareness, discernment, emotion, feeling, gut reaction, heart*, insight, intuition, judgment, keenness, perceptiveness, rationale, sensation, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, taste, vibes |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, insensibility, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trepidation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, worry |
| Synonyms: | agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, butterflies, cold feet, cold sweat, consternation, creeps, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps, horror, jitters, nervousness, palpitation, panic, perturbation, shock, terror, trepidity, uneasiness, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calm, contentment, happiness |
| Main Entry: | affectivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional attachment |
| Synonyms: | affection, emotion, feeling, sentiment |
| Main Entry: | fervency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion |
| Synonyms: | ardor, emotion, enthusiasm, fervor, fire, fury, gusto, heart, intensity, vehemence, zeal, zest |
| Notes: | the intensity of heat or feeling can be described as fervency (from Latin fervere 'boil'); an instance of this heat or feeling is fervor |
| Main Entry: | sensitiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation |
| Synonyms: | awareness, consciousness, emotion, feeling, gut reaction, impression, passion, response, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, thought, tingle, vibes |
| Main Entry: | vehemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intensity |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, deepness, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferociousness, ferocity, fervency, fervor, fierceness, fire, force, forcefulness, fury, high pitch, intenseness, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, pitch, potency, power, severity, sharpness, strain, strength, tenseness, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, weightiness, wildness |
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