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EMOTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any strong feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("emotion" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emotion"):
CER; conditioned emotion; conditioned emotional response (an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning)
anger; choler; ire (a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance)
fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
awe; fear; reverence; veneration (a feeling of profound respect for someone or something)
anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)
joy; joyfulness; joyousness (the emotion of great happiness)
love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)
hate; hatred (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)
emotional state; spirit (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection))
Derivation:
emote (give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role)
emotional (determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason)
emotional (of or pertaining to emotion)
Context examples:
I speak, you know, only of such men as have hearts! pressing his own with emotion.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A therapeutic technique in which art is used to express and explore emotions and to help address or heal emotional problems or traumas.
(Art therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers first created unique standardized growth charts from general population data for 3 social characteristics that are often impaired in people with ASD: face recognition memory, gaze fixation, and facial emotion recognition.
(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)
The prefrontal cortex is the seat of higher order functions such as language, social behavior, mood, and attention, and which also helps regulate emotions, and more primitive areas of the brain.
(Researchers identify brain circuits that help people cope with stress, NIH)
Being able to accurately identify emotions in others is important for social interaction in general, but particularly so in interracial contexts, which are prone to misinterpretations and misunderstandings.
(White people’s perceptions of the emotions on black people’s faces are less accurate than their perceptions among other white people, University of Granada)
"Maybe if you have an accepting attitude toward negative emotions, you're not giving them as much attention," Mauss said.
(Embracing Darker Moods Makes You Feel Better, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Varying were the emotions that surged through him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Thank you!” said Holmes. “Thank you!” and as he turned away, it seemed to me that he was more nearly moved by the softer human emotions than I had ever seen him.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She knew how trial and emotion would exalt and strengthen it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The features are given to man as the means by which he shall express his emotions, and yours are faithful servants.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
