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.
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Trauma-informed policing recognizes that trauma can affect behavior, memory, emotion, and a survivor’s ability to recount an experience—and that investigative practices themselves can either reduce or compound that trauma and any subsequent investigative challenges.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
“You can really create mood and emotion on the pipe organ,” Wilson once told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
"She went to the extremes, really, to get the feeling and the emotion I went through and the struggle."
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
"Life is precious. Hundreds of people have died but I survived," the father of two told AFP, his voice choked with emotion.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
It is not an emotion I enjoy at all.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Cornell's student body held a campus meeting Thursday at which emotions ran high.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Children in the study looked at faces conveying different emotions onscreen, and eye tracking technology recorded where their attention veered.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Tempers and emotions flared - despite a warning from the Speaker, Edwin Poots, to mind their manners - amid shouting across the packed benches.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Playing Nikki, who, under the spell of the One Wish Willow displays extreme emotions, was exactly the kind of acting challenge she needed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
His emotions were gathered in his chest like a ship in a bottle.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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