English > emotion: 1 sense > noun 1, feeling| Meaning | Any strong feeling. |
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| Narrower | anger, choler, ire | A strong emotion |
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| anxiety | A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune |
| conditioned emotional response, CER, conditioned emotion | An emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning |
| emotional state, spirit | The state / state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) |
| fear, fearfulness, fright | An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) |
| fear, reverence, awe, veneration | A feeling of profound respect for someone or something |
| hate, hatred | The emotion of intense dislike |
| joy, joyousness, joyfulness | The emotion of great happiness |
| love | A strong positive emotion of regard and affection |
| Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
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| Spanish | afecto, emoción |
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| Catalan | emoció |
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| Adjectives | emotional | determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason |
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| emotional | of or pertaining to emotion |
| Verbs | emote | give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role |
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