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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"If scientists can definitively say that dreams are important for problem solving, creativity and emotion regulation, hopefully people will start to take dreams seriously as a priority for mental health and well-being."
From Science Daily
One might argue that Fennell’s stunning images and the familiar emotions they convey are a happy accident, the result of millions of dollars and a director given carte blanche to play as she sees fit.
From Salon
“It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now,” Hess said at a press conference last week.
From Los Angeles Times
For all the emotion that enveloped the Dodgers postseason, it turns out none of it could compare to the private hell endured by one of their own.
From Los Angeles Times
It surveyed around 5,000 people and then followed 50 couples in forensic, sometimes intrusive detail, combining statistics with diaries, interviews and "emotion maps" of what happened in the home.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
