Emotion
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Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
anger, anxiety, crying, depression, empathy, euphoria, fear, frustration, grief, guilt, love /affection, pleasure
Related Terms
Scope Note
that aspect of consciousness devoted to affect or feeling.
Facts
- Emotion is any strong feeling.
- An emotion is a mental and physiological state associated with a wide variety of feelings, thoughts, and behavior.
- An appeal to emotion is a type of argument which attempts to arouse the emotions of its audience in order to gain acceptance of its conclusion.
