Emotions

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Most Comprehensive List of Emotions and Their Meanings (Alphabetic Order)

• Acceptance: recognition, approval, favorable reception, agreement
• Adoration: worship, admiration, reverence
• Affection: fondness, warmth, care
• Aggravation: irritation, worsening of a situation
• Aggressiveness: attacking, fierceness
• Agitation: anxiety, disturbance
• Agony: great pain, suffering, intense emotion
• Alarm: distress signal, fear, warn somebody
• Alienation: make somebody feel unfriendly, make somebody feel disaffected
• Amazement: astonishment, strong feeling of wonder or surprise
• Amusement: feeling something is funny
• Anger: strong feeling of displeasure
• Anguish: extreme anxiety
• Annoyance: feeling of mild anger and impatience
• Anticipation: feeling of looking forward, usually excitedly or eagerly, to something that is going to happen
• Anxiety: nervousness or agitation, often about something that is going to happen
• Appreciation: praise, valuing something highly, gratefulness, full understanding
• Apprehension: feeling of anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen
• Arousal: stimulation, provocation, excitement
• Astonishment: great amazement, often eliciting shock
• Attraction: magnetism, appealing
• Aversion: strong feeling of dislike of somebody or something
• Awe: feeling of amazement and respect mixed with fear that is often coupled with a feeling of personal insignificance or powerlessness
• Bitterness: mentally painful, very hard to accept, intense hostility
• Bliss: perfect happiness
• Boldness: fearless and adventurous
• Caring/Care: compassionate or showing concern for others
• Caution: carefulness, warning
• Cheerfulness: happy and optimistic mood
• Closeness: involved in a very friendly or affectionate relationship, involving or having regular contact because of a shared interest in something
• Compassion: sympathy for the suffering of others, often including a desire to help
• Completion: finishing of something
• Composure: calm and steady control over the emotions
• Confusion: state of being perplexed, lack of clarity, disorder
• Contempt: powerful feeling of dislike toward somebody or something considered to be worthless, inferior, or undeserving of respect
• Contentment: feeling of calm satisfaction
• Courage: being brave
• Cowardice: absence of courage, weakness
• Cruelty: mercilessness, unkindness, meanness, brutality, nastiness
• Defeat: failure to win or to realize a goal
• Dejection: great unhappiness
• Delight: great enjoyment and pleasure
• Depression: state of unhappiness and hopelessness
• Desire: wish, craving, or longing for something
• Despair: profound feeling that there is no hope
• Detachment: lack of interest in or involvement with other people or with worldly concerns
• Disappointment: feeling of being let down
• Discovery: something learned or found
• Disgust: strong disapproval or revulsion
• Dislike: disapproving feeling of not liking something or someone
• Dismay: feeling of hopelessness, disappointment or discouragement
• Displeasure: feeling of annoyance or dissatisfaction
• Disrespect: lack of respect
• Distress: mental suffering caused by grief, anxiety or unhappiness
• Dread: feeling of great fear or terror
• Eagerness: Enthusiastic and excited about doing something
• Ecstasy: feeling of intense delight
• Elation: feeling of great happiness and excitement
• Embarrassment: feeling of painful self-consciousness, uncomfortableness, shame or humiliation
• Enjoyment: pleasure that results from using or experiencing something
• Enthrallment: delight or fascinate somebody thoroughly, engaging that person's attention completely
• Enthusiasm: passionate interest in or eagerness to do something
• Envy: wanting what somebody else has
• Euphoria: feeling of great joy, excitement or well-being
• Exasperation: very angry or frustrated, often by repetition of something annoying
• Excitement: feeling or condition of lively enjoyment or pleasant anticipation
• Exhilaration: feel happy, excited, and more than usually vigorous and alive
• Expectancy/Expectation: excited awareness that something is about to happen
• Familiarity: closeness and friendliness in a personal relationship, an intimacy that is improper and presumptuous
• Fear: an unpleasant feeling of anxiety or apprehension caused by the presence or anticipation of danger, a concern about something that threatens to bring bad news or results
• Ferocity: rage, cruelty, wildness, viciousness
• Fondness: feeling love, affection, or preference for somebody or something
• Fright: a sudden intense feeling of being threatened or in danger
• Frustration: a feeling of disappointment, exasperation, or weariness caused by goals being thwarted or desires unsatisfied
• Fury: a state of excited or frenetic activity, an outburst of violent anger

• Gaiety:


• Gain:


• Generosity:


• Gladness:


• Glee:


• Gloom:


• Glumness:


• Greed:


• Grief:


• Grouchiness:


• Grumpiness:


• Guilt:


• Happiness:


• Hate/Hatred;


• Homesickness:


• Hope:


• Hopelessness:


• Horror:


• Hostility:


• Humiliation:


• Hurt:


• Hysteria:


• Incompleteness:


• Indifference:


• Infatuation:


• Innocence:


• Insecurity:


• Insult:


• Interest:


• Irritation:


• Isolation:


• Jealousy:


• Jolliness:


• Joviality:


• Joy:


• Jubilation:


• Liking:


• Loathing:


• Loneliness:


• Longing:


• Loss:


• Love:


• Lust:


• Melancholy:


• Misery:


• Modesty:


• Mortification:


• Mystery:


• Neglect:


• Nervousness:


• Optimism:


• Outrage:


• Pain:


• Panic:


• Passion:


• Patience:


• Pity:


• Pleasure:


• Pride:


• Privacy:


• Rage:


• Rapture:


• Rashness:


• Regret:


• Rejection:


• Relaxation:


• Relief:


• Remorse:


• Repentance:


• Repulsion:


• Resentment:


• Respect:


• Revulsion:


• Sadness:


• Satisfaction:


• Scorn:


• Security:


• Sentimentality:


• Shame:


• Shock:


• Sorrow:


• Spite:


• Stress;


• Subjection:


• Submission:


• Suffering:


• Surprise:


• Sympathy:


• Tenderness:


• Tenseness:


• Terror:


• Thrill:


• Timidity:


• Togetherness:


• Tolerance:


• Torment:


• Triumph:


• Uneasiness:


• Unhappiness:


• Vengefulness:


• Weariness:


• Woe:


• Wonder:


• Worry:


• Wrath:


• Zeal:


• Zest:

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