Wednesday, October 18, 2006

List of Emotions

It has interjections expressing degrees of these emotions: Simple emotions

  • discovery - confusion
  • gain - loss
  • surprise - no surprise - expectation
  • wonder - commonplace
  • happiness - unhappiness
  • amusement - weariness
  • completion - incompleteness
  • courage - timidity - cowardice
  • pity - cruelty
  • repentance - lack of regret - innocence
Complex emotions
  • pride - modesty - shame
  • closeness - detachment - distance
  • complaint/pain - doing OK - pleasure
  • caution - boldness - rashness
  • patience - mere tolerance - anger
  • relaxation - composure - stress
Pure emotions
  • fear - nervousness - security
  • togetherness - privacy
  • respect - disrespect
  • appreciation - envy
  • love - no love lost - hatred
  • familiarity - mystery
Propositional attitudes
  • attentive - inattentive - avoiding
  • alertness - exhaustion
  • intent - indecision - refusal
  • effort - no real effort - repose
  • hope - despair
  • desire - indifference - reluctance
  • interest - no interest - repulsion
  • Complex propositional attitudes
  • permission - prohibition
  • competence - incompetence
  • obligation - freedom
  • constraint - independence - resistance to constraint
  • request - negative request
  • suggestion - no suggestion - warning
Alphabetical list of emotions, including the above
  • Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Angst, Anticipation, Apathy,
  • Apprehension, Awe
  • Bitterness, Boredom
  • Calmness, Comfort, Compersion, Contentment, Confidence, Courage
  • Depression, Disappointment, Discontentment, Disgust, Desire, Delight
  • Elation or Euphoria, Embarrassment, Ennui, Envy, Ecstasy
  • Fear, Frustration
  • Glee, Gladness, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
  • Hate, Happiness, Homesickness, Honor, Hope, Horror, Humility
  • Joy, Jealousy
  • Kindness
  • Loneliness, Love, Lust, Limerence
  • Modesty
  • Nervousness, Negativity, Nostalgia
  • Pain, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
  • Rage, Remorse
  • Sadness, Schadenfreude, Self-pity, Shame, Shyness, Sorrow, Shock, Surprise,
  • Suspense
  • Terror
  • Unhappiness
  • Worry
Intensity of emotions Emotions can be arranged according to intensity. In each set below, the former emotions are less intense than the latter, separated by 'and':
  • Intensity of emotions
  • sympathy and love
  • disgust and hate
  • anger and rage
  • sadness and despair
  • worry, fear, paranoia and terror
  • happiness and elation
  • distaste and disgust
Source: Wikipedia.org

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