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| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
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| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
pungent, red, absorbing, acute, affected, affected with, anxiolytic, ardent, attempered, boiling, boiling over, breathless, burning, captious, cast, caustic, characterized, clairsentient, conscious, cordial, cutting, deep, deep, deep, disposed, eager, earnest, eaten up with, ecstatic, electric, emotional, emotive, enraptured, enthusiastic, essentic, esthetic, exsensed, fanatical, feeling, fervent, fervid, feverish, fiery, flaming, flexanimous, formed, framed, glowing, gushing, having a bias, heart, hearty, home, imbued with, impassioned, impetuous, impressed with, impressive, in a quiver, inborn, inbred, incisive, inclined, indelible, ineffaceable, ingenuous, ingrained, inveterate, keen, keen as a razor, lively, molded, moved with, passionate, pathematic, pathoscopic, penetrated with, penetrating, perceptive, perfervid, pervading, piercing, piquant, poignant, profound, psychosensory, psychosexual, quick, rabid, racy, rapt, rapturous, raving, rectopathic, sensible, sensificatory, sensitive, sensorial, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sharp, sincere, smart, soul, strong, struck all of a heap, swelling, thin, touched with, trenchant, vivid, warm, warmhearted, wistful, with feeling, wrought up, zealous
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| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch*, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love*, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot*, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen*, amore |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enthusiasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keen interest, excitement |
| Synonyms: | élan, activity, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, intensity, interest, joy, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph*, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat*, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zest, ardency, fieriness, impetuosity, joyfulness, zealousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness, aloofness, coldness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | excitement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm; incitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, ado, adventure, agitation, animation, bother, buzz*, commotion, confusion, disturbance, dither*, drama, elation, emotion, feeling, ferment, fever, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, hurry, hysteria, impulse, instigation, intoxication, motivation, motive, movement, passion, perturbation, provocation, rage, stimulation, stimulus, stir, thrill, titillation, to-do*, trepidation, tumult, turmoil, urge, warmth, discomposure, excitation, kicks, melodrama, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, boredom, calm, calmness, dullness, lull, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hoopla |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, brouhaha, bustle, buzz*, commotion, drama, elation, emotion, feeling, fever, fireworks*, flurry, frenzy, furor, fuss, heat*, hubbub*, hullabaloo*, hysteria, passion, racket, rage, ruckus, rumpus, stir, thrill, excitation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passion, force |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, anxiety, ardor, concentration, depth, earnestness, emotion, emphasis, energy, excess, excitement, extreme, extremity, fanaticism, ferment, ferocity, fervor, fire, force, fury, keenness, magnitude, might, nervousness, potency, power, severity, strain, strength, tension, vehemence, vigor, violence, volume, deepness, ferociousness, fervency, fierceness, forcefulness, high pitch, intenseness, sharpness, tenseness, weightiness, wildness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, dullness, laziness, lethargy, moderation, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | mood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
| Synonyms: | affection, air, atmosphere, attitude, aura, bent*, blues*, caprice, character, color*, condition, crotchet, cue, depression, desire, disposition, doldrums, dumps*, emotion, fancy, feel*, feeling, frame of mind*, humor, inclination, individuality, melancholy, mind, personality, pleasure, propensity, response, scene, semblance, soul, spirit, strain, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, timbre, vagary, vein, whim, wish, high spirits, low spirits |
| Antonyms: | health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | motive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reason, purpose |
| Synonyms: | aim, antecedent, basis, cause, consideration, design, drive, emotion, end, feeling, grounds, idea, impulse, incentive, incitement, inducement, influence, inspiration, intent, intention, motivation, object, occasion, passion, rationale, root, spring, spur, stimulus, thinking, determinant, mainspring |
| Antonyms: | deterrent, discouragement, hindrance |
| Main Entry: | pathos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep sadness |
| Synonyms: | desolation, emotion, feeling, passion, poignancy, sentiment, pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, poignance |
| Notes: | bathos is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Antonyms: | cheer, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | sensibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsiveness; ability to feel |
| Synonyms: | affection, appreciation, awareness, discernment, emotion, feeling, gut reaction*, heart*, insight, intuition, judgment, keenness, rationale, sensation, sense, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, taste, perceptiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | apathy, indifference, insensibility, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trepidation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, worry |
| Synonyms: | agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, cold feet*, consternation, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps*, horror, jitters, nervousness, palpitation, panic, perturbation, shock, terror, uneasiness, butterflies, cold sweat, creeps, trepidity, worriment |
| Antonyms: | calm, contentment, happiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration; very strong liking |
| Synonyms: | adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amour, appreciation, ardor, attachment, case*, crush, delight, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, lust, partiality, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot*, taste, tenderness, weakness, worship, yearning, zeal, amorousness, ardency, cherishing, devotedness, mad for |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, perception |
| Synonyms: | awareness, consciousness, emotion, gut reaction*, impression, passion, response, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, susceptibility, thought, tingle, sensitiveness, vibes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turmoil in real life |
| Synonyms: | climax, comedy, crisis, emotion, excitement, farce, histrionics, scene, spectacle, tension, tragedy, dramatics, melodrama, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, spirit, sympathy, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth, palpability, sharpness, tangibility |
| Main Entry: | bosom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart; core |
| Synonyms: | center, circle, conscience, inside, interior, soul, spirit, affections, emotions, feelings, sentiments, sympathies |
| Antonyms: | outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | breast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feelings, conscience |
| Synonyms: | being, bosom, character, core, heart, mind, psyche, soul, spirit, emotions, essential nature, seat of affections, sentiments, thoughts |
| Main Entry: | character |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individuality |
| Synonyms: | appearance, aspect, attribute, badge, bent, caliber, cast, complex, complexion, constitution, disposition, estimation, frame, frame of mind, genius, grain, habit, humor, kind, makeup, mettle, mood, morale, mystique, nature, personality, quality, record, reputation, sense, set, shape, sort, specialty, spirit, standing, streak, style, temper, temperament, tone, trait, turn, type, vein, crasis, emotions, ethos, repute, singularity |
| Main Entry: | disposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal temperament |
| Synonyms: | bag*, being, bent, bias, cast, character, complexion, constitution, cup of tea*, flash, frame of mind, groove*, habit, humor, identity, inclination, individuality, leaning, mind-set*, mood, nature, penchant, personality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, spirit, stamp, temper, tendency, tenor, thing*, tone, type, vein, druthers, emotions, individualism, make-up, proneness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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