Basic Emotions

2011-08-11T03:53:00.000-07:00

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Ten Most Basic or Distinct Human Emotions

(Refer the earlier post that gives a very comprehensive list of all the human emotions)

1. Interest- excitement

2. Enjoyment- joy

3. Startle- surprise

4. Distress- anguish

5. Rage- anger

6. Disgust- revulsion

7. Contempt- scorn

8. Fear- terror

9. Shame- shyness- humiliation

10. Guilt- remorse

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Emotions

2009-04-01T06:05:00.000-07:00

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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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