emotion 
emo·tion (ē mō′s̸hən, i-)
noun
- strong feeling; excitement
- a state of consciousness having to do with the arousal of feelings, distinguished from other mental states, as cognition, volition, and awareness of physical sensation
- any specific feeling; any of various complex reactions with both mental and physical manifestations, as love, hate, fear, anger, etc.
Etymology: Fr (prob. after motion) < émouvoir, to agitate, stir up < VL *exmovere, for L emovere < e-, out + movere, move
emotion
n.
Emotions include: love, passion, infatuation, rapture, ecstasy, fire, warmth, affection, glow, fury, vehemence, fervor, ardor, zeal, thrill, elation, flutter, palpitation, joy, satisfaction, happiness, delight, glee, bliss, elation, inspiration, sympathy, empathy, tenderness, concern, grief, remorse, sorrow, sadness, melancholy, despondency, woe, anguish, misery, despair, depression, trepidation, worry, discomposure, disquiet, uneasiness, dread, fear, apprehension, hate, resentment, malice, contempt, animosity, conflict, jealousy, greed, covetousness, cupidity, anger, rage, ire, shame, pride, prurience, concupiscence, sensuality, lust, desire, lechery, pathos, bathos. See syn. study at feeling.feeling.
Converse of object
- evoke: I began to suspect that certain sounds evoked certain emotions, like the Baptist hymns.
- arouse: Many are said to have died from the emotion thus aroused.
- convey: The main idea is to convey the emotions that the couple feel for each other.
- stir: Graham, the more deliberately judicial for the stirring emotions he felt, asked if there had been any fighting.
- express: Can you think of a better way to express these emotions than through flowers?
- suppress: Now, the son would have to deal with a lot of suppressed emotions regarding how he felt toward his father.
Converse of subject
- overwhelm: Oh my, as usual, overwhelmed by emotions while thinking about HIM!
Adjective modifier
- conflicting: Caris is a real rebel, with all the conflicting emotions of adolescence.
- negative: In some ways, the negative emotions fuelled my creativity.
- mixed: Subsequently the mixed emotions that arise from such an event.. .
- raw: Performances are very strong, especially in scenes of raw emotion or hidden ferocity.
- intense: Don't feel embarrassed about crying as it helps when you release these intense emotions.
- pent-up: Reading my diary entries and letters and looking at photos had been a catalyst for all the pent-up emotions inside me.
Modifies a noun
- recognition: Trait emotional intelligence: Behavioral validation in two studies of emotion recognition and reactivity to mood induction.
- processing: Evidence of localized brain changes with age indicates that there are age-related changes in two brain areas known to be important in emotion processing.
- perception: A large and very varied brain circuitry subserves emotion perception and emotion regulation.
Noun used with modifier
- tender: Accordingly, the lyrics were concerned with expressing affection and exploring more tender emotions.
Preposition: of
- fear: Once imprinting has occurred in the adult, then the two emotions of fear and excitement begin to generate the drama of obsession.
- character: Firstly the character animations have been upgraded to better convey the emotions of the characters, particularly when it comes to relationships.
Preposition: like
- anger: You will also need to release various emotions like anger and hurt that you have experienced and possibly suppressed from " bad " relationships.
We donot expect peopletobe deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.
Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
The emotion of art is impersonal.
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an'objective correlative'such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.
Thetheme defeatsstructuralism, for it isanemotion.The theme of Lord of the Flies isgrief, sheer grief, grief, grief, grief.
They used language concentrating emotion, detail and image until theyarrived at a form of dew-like steel.
The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched with emotion.
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality.
Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. SeeWordsworth 925:10.
[There is] an undercurrent of emotion bred of the deep acquaintance that can take a landscape and its inhabitantsto be a vocabulary, a set of wordlesssymbols effortlessly shared.
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, Undisciplined squads of emotion.
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