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This is a list of emotions.
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
The artificial language Lojban
It has interjections expressing degrees of these emotions:
- Simple emotions
- Complex emotions
- Pure emotions
- fear - nervousness - security
- togetherness - privacy
- respect - disrespect
- appreciation - envy
- love - no love lost - hatred
- familiarity - mystery
- Propositional attitudes
- Complex propositional attitudes
- permission - prohibition
- competence - incompetence
- obligation - freedom
- constraint - independence - resistance to constraint
- request - negative request
- suggestion - no suggestion - warning
Alphabetical list of emotions, including the above
- Acceptance, Agitation, Alarm, Amusement, Anger, Angst, Anticipation, Apprehension, Apathy, Awe
- Bitterness, Boredom
- Calmness, Comfort, Contentment, Confidence, Courage
- Depression, Disappointment, Discontentment, Disgust, Desire, Delight.
- Elation or Euphoria, Embarrassment, Ennui, Envy, Ecstasy
- Fear, Friendship, Frustration,
- Glee, Gladness, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt
- Hate, Happiness, Homesickness, Honor, Hope, Horror, Humility
- Joy, Jealousy,
- Kindness
- Loneliness, Love, Lust, Limerence
- Modesty
- Nervousness, Negativity, Nostalgia
- Pain, Patience, Peace, Phobia, Pity, Pride
- Rage, Remorse
- Sadness, Schadenfreude, Self-pity, Shame, Shyness, Sorrow, Shock, Suffering, Surprise, Suspense
- Terror
- Unhappiness
- Vulnerability
- Worry
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.
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
See also
"List of emotions"