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List of emotions - Definition and Overview

The basic eight emotions are:

Contents

According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric

The emotions are:

The artificial language Lojban

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
  • Pure emotions
  • 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

Complete list of emotions

wiktionary:Category:Emotions

Intensity of emotions

Emotions could be arranged according to intensity. In each pair below, for example, the former emotion is less intense than the latter.

See also

Example Usage of emotions

Nissette_C: Playing: Got Dynamite - @ddlovato, you rock!!! And Remember December god i can feel your emotions in that song, so deep...
aerin1021: is full of conflicting emotions about leaving Florence, but not about finals: almost done!
kayexalate: Moment émotions avec Peter Von Poehl : http://www.deezer.com/listen-735596
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