Emotion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.
  • n. A state of mental agitation or disturbance: spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion. See Synonyms at feeling.
  • n. The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility: "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect” ( Isaac Bashevis Singer).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
  • n. A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Excited or unusual motion; disturbed movement.
  • n. An agitated or aroused, and usually distinctly pleasurable or painful, state of mind directed toward some object; technically, a sensation excited by an idea and directed toward an object, and accompanied by some bodily commotion, such as blushing, trembling, weeping, or some slighter disturbance not manifest to a second party.
  • n. Synonyms Trepidation, Tremor, etc. See agnitation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any strong feeling
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    feeling   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    joyfulness    conditioned emotion    awe    emotional state    hate    joy    anxiety    choler    cer    hatred   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    excitement    trepidation    feeling    perturbation    agitation    tremor    passion    affect   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Laotian    Ocean    commotion    demotion    devotion    locomotion    lotion    motion    notion    ocean   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    passion    excitement    sensation    anger    sentiment    affection    energy    imagination    vision    dignity