emotion
Usage
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.
Example Sentences
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Emotion poured out of the 34-year-old Englishman after he holed the winning putt on the 18th green, saluting a crowd who chanted "Tommy, Tommy, Tommy" by raising both arms before letting out a huge roar.
From BBC • Aug. 24, 2025
Emotion creeps into Gascón’s voice when he talks about what might happen if he loses.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2024
Her 2021 book Redefining Murder, Transforming Emotion is based on interviews she did over the course of three years with people who lost loved ones to homicide.
From Slate • Aug. 7, 2024
This study appears in the journal Cognition and Emotion.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
Emotion in a persuasive appeal is only effective inasmuch as it is shared emotion.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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