List of emotions

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This is a list of emotions (feelings).

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[edit] Robert Plutchik's theory

This says that the basic eight emotions are:

  • fear -> feeling afraid. Other words are terror (strong fear), shock, phobia (fear of one thing)
  • anger -> feeling angry. Another word is rage. You can be angry with yourself or with others.
  • sorrow -> feeling sad. Other words are sadness, grief (a stronger feeling, for example when someone has died) or depression (feeling sad for a long time). Some people think depression is a different emotion.
  • joy -> feeling happy. Other words are happiness, glee (when something good happens to you. or something bad happens to someone else), gladness.
  • disgust -> feeling something is wrong or dirty.
  • acceptance -> feeling happy with something.
  • anticipation -> feeling happy because of something in the future.
  • surprise -> how you feel when something happens quickly or when you did not think it would happen.

[edit] Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric

This theory says that the emotions are:

  • Anger, opposite Calmness (not feeling excited)
  • Friendship (Love), opposite Enmity (feeling hate)
  • Fear, opposite Confidence (having no fear)
  • Shame, opposite Shamelessness (shame: how you feel when you think you are wrong or stupid; shamelessness: you do not feel shame, but others think you should.)
  • Kindness, opposite Unkindness (kindness: when you are good to other people)
  • Pity (when you feel sorry for other people)
  • Indignation (feeling angry because something is not fair)
  • Envy (how you feel when other people are luckier than you are)

[edit] The artificial language Lojban

This "language" has words showing these emotions:

  • Simple emotions
    • discovery - confusion
    • gain - loss
    • surprise - no surprise - expectation
    • wonder (surprise - 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

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