emotion
Other forms: emotions
An emotion is a strong feeling, like the emotion you feel when you see your best friend at the movies with a group of people who cause trouble for you.
The word emotion comes from the Middle French word émotion, which means "a (social) moving, stirring, agitation." We feel many different emotions every day, like love, fear, joy and sadness — just to name a few. On its own, emotion means "the expression of feeling," like a musician who plays with great emotion, or an actor whose face conveys emotions, even when he or she is just standing quietly on the stage.
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any strong feelingtypes:CER, conditioned emotion, conditioned emotional responsean emotional response that has been acquired by conditioningfear, fearfulness, frightan emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)anxietya vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortunelovea strong positive emotion of regard and affectionemotional state, spiritthe state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)huffinessa passing state of anger and resentmentcreepsa feeling of fear and revulsionhorrorintense and profound fearhysteriaexcessive or uncontrollable fearstage frightfear that affects a person about to face an audienceintimidationthe feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timidinsecuritythe anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecurejitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness, restivenessthe anxious feeling you have when you have the jittersangstan acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedomagape, agape loveselfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature)agape(Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankindfilial lovethe love of a child for a parentbenevolencedisposition to do goodheartstringsyour deepest feelings of love and compassionloyaltyfeelings of allegiancemisanthropyhatred of mankindmisogamyhatred of marriagemisologyhatred of reasoningmisoneismhatred of change or innovationmisopediahatred of childrenmurderousnessa bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulsesexuberancejoyful enthusiasmembarrassmentthe state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus, transporta state of being carried away by overwhelming emotionfelicity, happinessstate of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joystatea state of depression or agitationunhappinessstate characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep griefmisandryhatred of mentype of:feelingthe experiencing of affective and emotional states
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