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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Overcome with emotion, Trevilla paused as he lauded the soldiers who died on Sunday.
Close said that throughout the game she had to balance wanting her team to compete to their standard with allowing her seniors to feel the emotions and enjoy their final regular season home game.
From Los Angeles Times
Meanwhile, for many older South Koreans, the prevailing emotion was fear.
From BBC
"My emotions were emotions of happiness and relief because this is the first time I have to do a different post match press conference," said Slot.
From BBC
"Tonight's performance was just an extension of the emotions that I've been feeling for the past year leading up to these Olympics," the two-time world champion told journalists.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
