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.
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In networks associated with emotion, cortisol produced more consistent patterns of activity and increased their engagement.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Built from heavy music of complexity and deep emotion, “Marrow Deep” is in part a document of the band in conflict and mourning for the man they’d spent two decades within a close creative brotherhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Stories about corporate intrigue, money and power have found a home on TV. They lack the cinematic qualities that excite big screen audiences, like emotion, spectacle and fantasy," Gross said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
To channel it effectively, Brach advocates mindfulness, in particular the "RAIN" strategy - recognise the emotion, allow yourself to experience it, investigate the cause, and nurture feelings of understanding.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
All react with little empathy and seem to find emotion a foreign language.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Watch: How does music on The Traitors manipulate your emotions?
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
In mammals, psilocybin interacts with serotonin receptors in the brain, influencing emotions and behaviors such as mood, appetite, and aggression.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It’s about learning what to do with those emotions without making somebody else pay for them.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
It nonetheless triggered a flood of trauma and emotions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Their skin changes color in response to their emotions, or shifts in their environment like light, temperature, or humidity.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Vocabulary lists containing emotion
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