emotion
Usage
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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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Fright is a natural human emotion, but the action to not make oneself afraid derives from a sense of personal agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Scent is “memory, mood and emotion, distilled into something you can’t see but never forget,” Air Aroma said in a Facebook post earlier this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
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
As he neared the end of his speech, Burnham appeared overcome by emotion and it looked for a brief moment as though he could not carry on.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
He eventually regains balance, but watching Fly unsteadily flap in the wind gives me the human emotion of nervous.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
Mr. Spencer’s four marriages and three divorces barely merit a mention, yet his emotions are center stage as he interweaves his memories around Diana’s death with other scattered recollections.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The star noted that she had been trying her best to not break down in public, instead coping with her emotions behind closed doors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Quigley, bearded and burly but soft-edged with a deliberative way of speaking that can serve a range of emotions, is brilliant, and Patel balances him admirably.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The 30-year-old is a combustible character who has struggled to control his emotions throughout his career.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Taking a breath to steady the weight of my emotions, I start down the hallway back to reception.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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"Fears and Phobias," Vocabulary from the article
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