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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“There’s a lot of emotion that goes on here day in and day out,” Noe said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
The pattern was especially clear in the prefrontal cortex, a brain region that helps regulate thought, emotion, decision making, and behavior.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
“Never Be the Same” includes many moments like this that lull the listener into losing track of place and time with songs grounded in emotion and meaning.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
Following defeat at St Mary's on Tuesday, Hellberg spoke with emotion.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
The Earth Goddess reaches for Nansi’s face, seemingly unfazed by his explosions of emotion.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
The SAT: Language of the Test, List 4
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The New SAT: The Language of the Test
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"Fears and Phobias," Vocabulary from the article
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