Emotions

A list + Definitions




Affection - the emotional response of love toward somebody -
Ambivalence - situations where "mixed feelings" of a more general sort are experienced. -
Anger - Part of the fight or flight brain response to the perceived threat of harm.
Angst - an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
Annoyance - something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
Anticipation - pleasure (and sometimes anxiety) in considering some expected or longed-for good event, or irritation at having to wait.
Anxiety - a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
Apathy - the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally
Awe - an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
Boredom - emotional state experienced during periods lacking activity or when individuals are uninterested in the opportunities surrounding them.
Compassion - the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
Compersion - Warm happy feelings experienced when noticing ones loved ones enjoying loving relationships with others. The opposite of jealousy.
Confusion - a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
Contempt - open disrespect for a person or thing
Contentment - experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation.
Courage - ability to confront fear, pain, risk/danger, uncertainty, or intimidation.
Curiosity - state in which you want to learn more about something
Desire - the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
Disappointment - feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized;
Disgust - typically associated with things that are regarded as unclean, inedible, infectious, or otherwise offensive.
Doubt - the state of being unsure of something
Ecstasy - subjective experience of total involvement of the subject, with an object of his or her awareness.
Embarrassment - shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
Empathy - Empathy, which literally translates as in feeling, is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings.
Emptiness - Emptiness as a human condition is a sense of generalised boredom, social alienation and apathy.
Enthusiasm - having or showing great excitement and interest;
Envy - a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
Euphoria - feeling of great (usually exaggerated) exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression
Fear - be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or even
Frustration - an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
Gratification - pleasurable emotional reaction of happiness in response to a fulfillment of a desire or the fulfillment of a goal.
Gratitude - a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
Grief - multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed.
Guilt - cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realises or believes--accurately or not--that they have violated a moral standard, and bear sole responsibility for that violation.
Happiness - state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, love, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy.
Hatred - general is a vehement aversion entertained by one person for another, or for something more or less identified with that other.
Homesickness - distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from the specific home environment or attachment objects.
Hope - the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled;
Hostility - Showing antagonism and opposition towards peoples and events.
Humiliation - the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.
Hysteria - neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions
Interest - a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
Jealousy - negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, such as a relationship, friendship, or love
Limerence - An involuntary state of mind which seems to result from a romantic attraction for another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated
Loneliness - a feeling in which people experience a strong sense of emptiness and solitude. Loneliness is often compared to feeling empty, unwanted, and unimportant. Someone who is lonely may find it hard to form strong interpersonal relationships.
Love - strong positive emotion of regard and affection
Lust - craving for sexual intimacy, sometimes to the point of assuming a self-indulgent character.
Mono no aware - awareness of mujo or the transience of things and a bittersweet sadness at their passing.
Nostalgia - yearning for the past, often in idealized form.[
Optimism - feeling that all is going to turn out well
Panic - sudden fear which dominates or replaces thinking and often affects groups of people or animals.
Patience - state of endurance under difficult circumstances
Passion - intense emotion compelling feeling, enthusiasm, or desire for something.
Pessimism - state of mind which negatively colors the perception of life, especially with regard to future events.
Pity - evokes a tender or sometimes slightly contemptuous sorrow or empathy for people, a person, or an animal in misery, pain, or distress.
Pride - a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
Rage - a state of extreme anger
Regret - negative conscious and emotional reaction to personal past acts and behaviors. Regret is often felt when someone feels sadness, shame, embarrassment, depression, annoyance or guilt after committing an action or actions that the person later wishes that he or she had not done.
Remorse - Remorse is an emotional expression of personal regret felt by a person after he or she has committed an act which they deem to be shameful, hurtful, or violent. Remorse is closely allied to guilt and self-directed resentment.
Repentance - change of thought and action to correct a wrong and gain forgiveness from a person who is wronged.
Resentment - feeling of anger or displeasure stemming from belief that others have engaged in wrongdoing or mistreatment; indignation
Righteous indignation - typically a reactive emotion of anger over perceived mistreatment, insult, or malice. It is akin to what is called the sense of injustice.
Sadness - emotion characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, and helplessness.
Saudade - feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost. ...
Schadenfreude - delight in another person's misfortune
Sehnsucht - Deep emotional state of "longing", "yearning" and "craving",
Self-pity - a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings
Shame - a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
Suffering - feelings of mental or physical pain
Surprise - the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you
Suspicion - cognition of mistrust in which a person doubts the honesty of another person or believes another person to be guilty of some type of wrongdoing or crime, but without sure proof.
Sympathy - a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
Weltschmerz - denotes the kind of feeling experienced by someone who understands that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind.
Wonder - the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
Worry - disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress;