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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“I started with Vecna by physically feeling this character, finding the voice, using the references and attaching all of that into the emotion and the drive behind him,” Bower says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026
P. distasonis and Flavonifractor plautii were positively linked with brain regions involved in attention, motor inhibition, emotion, and learning.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
He added that his first notification on his phone had told him to update a long list of apps, which left him "overwhelmed with emotion".
From BBC • May 27, 2026
Daniel, who is in his mid-50s, didn’t show emotion when the verdict was read aloud or when he was led out of the Manhattan courtroom for the Southern District of New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
To let go of this feeling, of this human emotion.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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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