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Definition of Emotions
1. emotion [n] - See also: emotion
Medical Definition of Emotions
1. Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotions
Literary usage of Emotions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"The emotions produced in those foreign breasts by these aspects were not all
formed on one pattern, of course; they had to be various, along at first, ..."
2. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1870)
"PART IV COEXISTENT emotions .AND PASSIONS. . 136. FOR a thorough knowledge of
the humm passions and •'motions, it is not sufficient that they he examined ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"I. The favorite theory of to-day concerning the nature of the emotions is probably
... Irons can only cite in his favor the emotions of 'cool' contempt, ..."
4. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"The point of cardinal importance is the distinction between the emotions and the
... emotions and sentiments differ, not primarily in respect of intensity, ..."
5. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"How THESE ORGANIC STATES DIFFER FROM REGULAR emotions Now why do we hesitate to
call hunger, fatigue and the rest by the name of emotions? ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We have already seen that the imagination and the emotions are important ...
The emotions, elicited by the recognition of dependence on God and by the ..."
7. Mind (1899)
"And of all emotions there are none more powerful, more subtle, ... Religious
experience in one sense is an emotion, or a class of emotions. ..."
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