List of emotions

This is a list of emotions (feelings).

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. A stronger word is rage. One can be angry with oneself 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 someone. or something bad happens to someone else), gladness.
• Disgust → feeling something is wrong or dirty
• Acceptance → accepting a situation
• Expectation → feeling about something which is going to happen
• Surprise → how one feels when something happens quickly or when someone did not think it would happen

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 one feels about one's past bad actions or thoughts; shamelessness: one does not feel shame, but others think one should.)
• Kindness (benevolence), opposite unkindness (kindness: when people are good to other people)
• Pity (when people feel sorry for other people)
• Indignation (feeling angry because something is not fair, such as undeserved good fortune)
• Envy, jealous (pain when people have something that one wishes for oneself)

The engineered 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

Other websites

• Aristotle's List of Emotions
• Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric