List of emotions
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This is a list of emotions.
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[edit] According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric
The emotions are:
- Anger vs. Calmness
- Love vs. Enmity
- Fear vs. Confidence
- Shame vs. Shamelessness
- Kindness vs. Unkindness
- Pity
- Indignation
- Envy
- Emulation
[edit] The artificial language Lojban
It has interjections expressing degrees of these emotions:
- Simple emotions
- Complex emotions
- Pure emotions
- fear - nervousness - security
- togetherness - privacy
- respect - disrespect
- appreciation - envy
- love - no love lost - hatred
- familiarity - mystery
- Propositional attitudes
- Complex propositional attitudes
- permission - prohibition
- competence - incompetence
- obligation - freedom
- constraint - independence - resistance to constraint
- request - negative request
- suggestion - no suggestion - warning
- confused
[edit] Alphabetical list of emotions, including the above
- See Also: wiktionary:Category:Emotions
- Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Angst, Annoyance, Anticipation, Apprehension, Apathy, Awe
- Bitterness, Boredom
- Calmness, Comfort, Contentment, Confidence, Courage
- Depression, Disappointment, Discontentment, Disgust, Desire, Delight.
- Elation or Euphoria, Embarrassment, Ennui, Envy, Ecstasy
- Fear, Friendship, Frustration,
- Glee, Gladness, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
- Hate, Happiness, Homesickness, Honor, Hope, Horror, Humility
- Impatience, Irritability
- Joy, Jealousy,
- Kindness
- Loneliness, Love, Lust, Limerence
- Melancholy, Modesty
- Nervousness, Negativity, Nostalgia
- Pain, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
- Rage, Regret, Remorse, Resentment
- Sadness, Schadenfreude, Self-pity, Shame, Shyness, Sorrow, Shock, Suffering, Surprise, Suspense
- Terror
- Unhappiness
- Vulnerability
- Worry
[edit] Synonyms for common emotions
- Cool is often used as a synonym for calm.
- Dread is often used as a synonym for angst.
- Trepidation is often used as a synonym for fear.
- Vengefulness is often used to describe a state of extreme anger, serving to gain retaliation.
[edit] Intensity of emotions
Emotions can be arranged according to intensity. In each set below, the former emotions are less intense than the latter, separated by 'and':
- sympathy and love
- disgust and hate
- anger and rage
- sadness and despair
- worry, fear, paranoia and terror
- happiness and elation
- distaste and disgust
[edit] See also
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| Alertness • Acceptance • Affection • Ambivalence • Anger • Angst • Anticipation • Anxiety • Apathy • Bitterness • Boredom • Calmness • Compersion • Contempt • Confusion • Depression • Despair • Disappointment • Disgust • Doubt • Ecstasy • Embarrassment • Emptiness • Enmity • Enthusiasm • Envy • Epiphany • Fanaticism • Fear • Frustration • Gratification • Gratitude • Grief • Guilt • Happiness • Hate • Homesickness • Hope • Horror • Humiliation • Jealousy • Limerence • Loneliness • Love • Lust • Melancholia • Panic • Pity • Pride • Rage • Regret • Rejection • Remorse • Repentance • Righteous indignation • Self-pity • Serenity • Shame • Shyness • Suffering • Surprise |
