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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When the jury took just over two hours to reach a guilty verdict on the afternoon of 23 March, the pent-up emotion in Belfast's Court 13 was released.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Brett Ratner, the film’s director, doesn’t seem to understand that the music is supposed to add meaning and emotion to a scene, and the effect is “lazy and off-putting,” Nackenson argues.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
Politics is about persuasion and emotion, not rocket telemetry, so it’s not hard to figure out what’s going on.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 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
“It’s just—the emotions in that house all felt… complicated. And the person who called me, the emotion was… pure. I can’t think of how else to describe it.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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