Motivation and emotion/Tutorials/Emotion/List/Detailed
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List of specific emotions[edit | edit source]
- Acedia: Spiritual lethargy, indifference, like melancholy
- Affectionate
- Affected
- Agonised, agony, torn
- Aggravated
- Aggressive
- Aggrieved
- Alexithymic: Inability to express feelings with words
- Alienated
- Amazed
- Amused
- Angry
- Anguish
- Anhedonia: Inability to experience pleasurable emotions
- Annoyed
- Anomie: Personal feeling of a lack of social norms; normlessness
- Anticipatory
- Anxious
- Apathetic
- Apoplectic: Overcome with anger; extremely indignant
- Apostrophic: In drama, character breaks off to speak privately or to an imaginary character usually about extreme emotion
- Appalled
- Apprehensive
- Aroused
- Arrogant, hubris, surly, churlish
- Astonished
- Astounded
- Ataraxia: Tranquility; free from anxiety, worry, or feelings of responsibility.
- Awed/Awestruck
- Awkward
- Baffled: Bafflement
- Bedeviled: Tormented or harassed
- Befuddled: Confused, perplexed
- Bemused
- Bewildered
- Bewitched
- Bilious: Irritable or bad tempered; irascible.
- Bored
- Bothered
- Burdened
- Calm
- Cantankerous: Cranky
- Chagrin: A feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation
- Challenged
- Cheeky
- Cheerful
- Churlish
- Cocky, cocksure, over-confident
- Combative
- Compassionate
- Concerned
- Confidence
- Confusion
- Consternation: A sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay. Synonyms bewilderment, alarm, terror, fear, panic, fright, horror. —Antonyms: composure, equanimity.
- Contempt
- Contented
- Contentious
- Courageous
- Crestfallen
- Crushed
- Curiosity
- Cussed: Obstinate; annoying; perverse
- Defensive
- Defiant
- Delighted
- Delirious
- Depressed
- Desirous
- Despairing
- Determined
- Disaffected
- Disappointed
- Discombobulated: To confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate
- Discontented
- Discouraged
- Disgusted
- Disillusioned
- Dismayed
- Dispirited
- Dissatisfied
- Distracted
- Doubtful
- Dolorous
- Drained
- Dumbstruck: Dumbfounded
- Dyspeptic: Of or having indigestion or consequent irritability or depression.
- Dysphoria: A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression or anxiety.
- Eager
- Ecstatic
- Elated
- Embarrassed
- Empathy
- Empty, drained, exhausted
- Encouraged
- Energetic
- Enlightened
- Ennui: Boredom
- Enthralled
- Enthused
- Envious
- Estranged
- Euphoric
- Exasperated
- Exhausted, weary, tired
- Exhilarated
- Exposed
- Fascinated
- Fearful
- Flabbergasted
- Flamboyant
- Flow: Optimal arousal
- Flummoxed
- Forgiving
- Frustrated
- Furious
- Galled
- Glad
- Glum
- Gobsmacked, thunderstruck
- Grateful
- Greedy
- Grieving
- Grumpy, grouchy
- Guilty
- Happy
- Harassed
- Hassled
- Heartbreak
- Heartened
- Hopeful
- Horrified
- Hubris, arrogant, surly, churlish, over-confident
- Humourous
- Impatient
- Impish
- Indifferent
- Indignant
- Insightful
- Interested
- Intimidated
- Intrigued
- Irascible: Hot tempered - easily provoked to anger
- Irritated
- Jealous
- Joyful
- Livid
- Loving
- Lustful
- Mad
- Malicious: Mean
- Melancholic: Sad
- Mesmerised
- Mirthful
- Mischievous
- Miserable
- Morose
- Nasty
- Nauseous
- Nervous
- Nice
- Nirvana
- Obnoxious
- Offended
- Optimistic
- Ornery: Bad-tempered, stubborn, cantankerous
- Overcome
- Overloaded
- Panicked
- Paranoid
- Perky
- Peripatetic: Vacillating, undecided, uncertain, unclear about something, fretting, at sixes and sevens; a state of unregulated or unstable emotion
- Perplexed
- Pessimistic
- Pestered
- Pissed
- Playful
- Pleased
- Pleasurable
- Powerful
- Powerless
- Proud
- Provoked
- Puckish
- Puzzled
- Qualm: An uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear; a misgiving
- Rage
- Rattled
- Recalcitrant, stubborn, mulish
- Reconciled
- Rejuvenated
- Relaxed
- Relieved
- Remorseful
- Reticent: Reserved; restrained in expression, presentation, or appearance
- Riled: Stirred up -> anger
- Sad
- Satiety/Satiated
- Satisfied
- Satori? Understanding; flash of sudden awareness, or individual enlightenment
- Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others (German)
- Self-pity
- Serene
- Shocked
- Sorrowful
- Splenetic: Bad-tempered; spiteful
- Stigmatised
- Stressed
- Stubborn, mulish, recalcitrant
- Suffering
- Sullied: Dirtied
- Sundered, torn, broken
- Surgent: Surgency; Similar to excitement; feeling on top of the world; that things are going one's way
- Surly
- Surprise
- Suspenseful
- Sympathy
- Taciturn: Dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner
- Tainted
- Teary
- Tenacious
- Tendentious: Marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased
- Terrified
- Thrall
- Thrilled
- Thunderstruck, gobsmacked
- Tickled Pink
- Titillated
- Torn, sundered, of two minds, agony
- Tranquility
- Trusting
- Uncomfortable
- Uppity
- Upset
- Verklempt: Choked with emotion (Yiddish)
- Vengeful
- Vexed: Irritated, distressed, or annoyed
- Vindicated
- Vitality
- Wanting
- Wary
- Weary, tired, exhausted
- Wistful
- Wonderment
- Worried
- Wretched
- Zesty
See also
- List of emotions (Wikipedia)
External links
- Behavioral barometer
- List of specific emotions (Philosophy 101)