All emotion synonyms

noun emotion

• feeling — a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
• sentiment — an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
• reaction — a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
• passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
• sensation — the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses.
• affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• desire — A desire is a strong wish to do or have something.
• despair — Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
• fervor — great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor.
• fervour — great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor.
• grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
• happiness — the quality or state of being happy.
• joy — a female given name.
• love — a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
• pride — Thomas, died 1658, English soldier and regicide.
• rage — angry fury; violent anger (sometimes used in combination): a speech full of rage; incidents of road rage.
• remorse — deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
• sadness — affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away.
• shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• sympathy — harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
• warmth — the quality or state of being warm; moderate or gentle heat.
• affect — If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
• agitation — If someone is in a state of agitation, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
• ardor — emotional warmth; passion
• ardour — Ardour is a strong, intense feeling of love or enthusiasm for someone or something.
• commotion — A commotion is a lot of noise, confusion, and excitement.
• despondency — Despondency is a strong feeling of unhappiness caused by difficulties which you feel you cannot overcome.
• disturbance — the act of disturbing.
• drive — to send, expel, or otherwise cause to move by force or compulsion: to drive away the flies; to drive back an attacking army; to drive a person to desperation.
• ecstasy — rapturous delight.
• elation — Great happiness and exhilaration.
• inspiration — an inspiring or animating action or influence: I cannot write poetry without inspiration.
• melancholy — sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
• perturbation — the act of perturbing.
• responsiveness — the quality or state of being responsive.
• satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
• sensibility — capacity for sensation or feeling; responsiveness or susceptibility to sensory stimuli.
• sensitiveness — the state or quality of being sensitive.
• thrill — to affect with a sudden wave of keen emotion or excitement, as to produce a tremor or tingling sensation through the body.
• tremor — involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
• vehemence — the quality of being vehement; ardor; fervor.
• vibes — Informal. vibration (def 4).
• zeal — fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
• affectivity — of, caused by, or expressing emotion or feeling; emotional.
• gut reaction — instinctive response