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 lead first with emotion and then logic.
“It moves your emotions. I think it’s really a way to escape it all.”
From Los Angeles Times
It said the word -- chosen through a combination of public voting, sentiment and analysis of OUP's "lexical data" -- had "captured our emotions" this year.
From Barron's
"Look at me with compassion and mercy and understand me as a Palestinian mother," she said, her voice straining with emotion.
From Barron's
"Some have lost family members... They need to handle funeral arrangements immediately and cope with their emotions at the same time."
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
