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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Envy, boredom and other unpleasant emotions have value that can be too easily overlooked.
In “Hard Feelings” Mr. Smith ponders how our most disagreeable emotions can serve us.
When asked how he thinks he'll feel in the car, he said: "The emotions inside my head will be, I'm sure, going hyper-sonic."
From BBC
The emotions evoked during spirit circles often brought people closer together.
From Literature
“I love the interplay between emotions in trading and the math of the economy and markets,” he says.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
