Word Meanings - EMOTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions

Additional info about word: EMOTION

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson. Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. -- Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may the bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. "Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing." Crabb.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMOTION)

• Ecstasy
• Rapture
• inspiration
• fervor
• frenzy
• transport
• emotion
• joy
• delight
• enthusiasm
• happiness
• Feeling
• Touch
• sensation
• contact
• pathos
• tenderness
• impression
• consciousness
• sensibility
• sentiment
• passion
• sensitiveness
• Passion
• Emotion
• desire
• ardor
• vehemence
• lust
• auger
• animation
• excitement
• warmth
• feeling
• Sentiment
• Thought
• notion
• opinion
• maxim
• susceptibility
• apprehension
• conviction
• Trepidation
• Terror
• trembling
• alarm
• fright
• peturbation
• tremor
• hurry
• disturbance
• agitation
• panic
• demoralization

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMOTION)

• Compose
• embolden
• reassure
• rally

Related words: (words related to EMOTION)

• WARMTH
  The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• APPREHENSION
  1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• CONVICTION
  A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone. 3. The act of convincing of
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• SENSATION
  An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable,
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• DEMORALIZATION
  The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.
• SENTIMENTALLY
  In a sentimental manner.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• SUTURALLY
  In a sutural manner.
• INANIMATION
  Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• CENTRALLY
  In a central manner or situation.
• WHURRY
  To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• PASTORALLY
  1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.