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.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Berger finds a path that accommodates both the grotesquerie and the moments of authentic emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
One has to wonder if the quarter-final and the emotion of that - a visibly emotional Rock sunk to his knees at the end - took too much out of him.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
It’s worth saying to him: “There’s no reason to feel ashamed. That’s not a useful emotion, and millions of people have found themselves in the same boat. You’re not alone.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 21, 2026
"You rejoice and cry, and you tremble inside from the emotion -- seeing those eyes that are both sad and joyful and filled with tears," she told AFP during a recent prisoner exchange.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
“Dragons do not feel loneliness. That is an emotion for humankind. And perhaps some of the weaker dryads.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
