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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But Neill is up to the task, creating an atmosphere of sheer bleakness with little more than a look that is, somehow, both vacant and teeming with emotion.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
Dogs not only witness human action and emotion, they are in sympathy with our seeing and often direct it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
"We're all very worried about that, and they're actually saying eventually AI will have emotion, and even that's a little worrying -- where do we go from there?" said Clark.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Labour MP Carolyn Harris was also overcome by emotion as she told MPs that "every day we see his decency and his courage shine through".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“Shrub,” she says, her voice thick with emotion.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
“Work through the emotions and work through the state you are in before you make the choice,” Donovan says.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
He initially insisted he did not want the job and would return to Fulham, but the warm reception he received when England beat Poland 3-1 at Wembley in his first game pulled on his emotions.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
Its characters are not as sharply drawn, nor the confrontation with evil as urgent, as in Mr. Nolan’s Batman films; the emotions are not as deep as in “Interstellar” or “Dunkirk.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Platforms are required to deploy systems to recognise extreme emotions and to implement crisis intervention mechanisms.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
My emotions were moving too quickly—I could hardly keep track.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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