List of emotions

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This is a list of emotions.

Contents 1 According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric 2 The artificial language Lojban 3 Alphabetical list of emotions, including the above 4 Synonyms for common emotions 5 Intensity of emotions 6 See also

[edit] According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric

The emotions are:

• Anger vs. Calmness
• Love vs. Enmity
• Fear vs. Confidence
• Shame vs. Shamelessness
• Kindness vs. Unkindness
• Pity
• Indignation
• Envy

[edit] 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
  • 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--

[edit] Alphabetical list of emotions, including the above

• Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Angst, Anticipation, Apprehension, Awe
• Bitterness, Boredom
• Calmness, Comfort, Compersion, Contentment, Confidence, Confusion
• Depression, Disappointment, Discontentment, Disgust, Desire, Delight
• Elation or Euphoria, Embarrassment, Ennui, Envy, Ecstasy
• Fear, Frustration
• Glee, Gladness, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
• Hate, Happiness, Homesickness, Hope, Horror, Humility
• Joy, Jealousy
• Kindness
• Loneliness, Love, Limerence
• Modesty
• Nervousness, Negativity, Nostalgia
• Pain, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
• Rage, Remorse
• Sadness, Schadenfreude, Self-pity, Selflessness, Shame, Shyness, Sorrow, Shock, Suffering, Surprise, Suspense
• Terror
• Unhappiness
• Worry

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[edit] Synonyms for common emotions

• Cool is often used as a synonym for calm.
• Dread is often used as a synonym for angst.
• Trepidation is often used as a synonym for fear.
• Vengefulness is often used to describe a state of extreme anger, serving to gain retaliation.

[edit] 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':

• sympathy and love
• disgust and hate
• anger and rage
• sadness and despair
• worry, fear, paranoia and terror
• happiness and elation
• distaste and disgust

[edit] See also

• affect
• emotion
• Definition of the emotions
• emotion and memory
• empathy
• facial expression
• mood

Emotions

Acceptance • Affection • Ambivalence • Anger • Angst • Anticipation • Anxiety • Apathy • Bitterness • Boredom • Calmness • Compersion • Contempt • Confusion • Depression • Disappointment • Disgust • Doubt • Ecstasy • Embarrassment • Emptiness • Enmity • Ennui • Enthusiasm • Envy • Epiphany • Fanaticism • Fear • Frustration • Gratification • Gratitude • Grief • Guilt • Happiness • Hate • Homesickness • Hope • Horror • Humiliation • Jealousy • Limerence • Loneliness • Love • Lust • Melancholia • Panic • Pity • Pride • Regret • Rejection • Remorse • Repentance • Righteous indignation • Self-pity • Serenity • Shame • Shyness • Suffering • Surprise