List of emotions

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This is a list of emotions (feelings).

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[change] 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

[change] 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)

[change] The engineered language Lojban

This "language" has words showing these emotions:

  • 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

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