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Definition of Emotional state
1. Noun. The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection). "His spirit rose"
Generic synonyms: Emotion
Specialized synonyms: Embarrassment, Ecstasy, Exaltation, Rapture, Raptus, Transport, Gratification, Satisfaction, Felicity, Happiness, State, Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Spirit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotional State
Literary usage of Emotional state
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"THE emotional state AS A PREPARATORY REACTION An emotion is often spoken of as
a disturbance of the normal quiet state, and as if it represented a breakdown ..."
2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1899)
"Is it possible, I have asked myself, to render the supervention of this secondary
process, this revival of the emotional state, more constant and more vivid ..."
3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The choice of an adverb for the emotional state instead of the related adjective
is also attested with other adverbs: it [a letter] had effect enough over ..."
4. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"must be ascribed to some underlying emotional state, the experimenter nevertheless
attempts to classify emotions despite this limitation. ..."
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