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emotion
noun as in mental state
Strongest matches
affection, anger, concern, desire, despair, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, happiness, joy, love, passion, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, warmth
Strong matches
affect, agitation, ardor, commotion, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, excitability, inspiration, melancholy, perturbation, responsiveness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, thrill, tremor, vehemence, vibes, zeal
Weak matches
Example Sentences
“One of the things that struck me about the lyrics was that some of them were from the children’s point of view and expressing emotions I hadn’t heard before,” said Hanggi.
The game had seemed in hand at half-time, yet come the final whistle the overriding emotion in Dublin was one of relief.
The journal Royal Society Open Science published a survey of 100 researchers of animal behavior, providing a unique view of current scientific thought on animal emotions and consciousness.
I can’t vouch for the factuality of that, but it resonates, as the emotion here is triumph.
The normally impassive Carsley finally let his emotions out after the final whistle, joining the celebrations with his players, beaming as he wrapped an equally elated Jones in a bearhug.
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When To Use
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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