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This is a list of emotions.

Stoic view of emotion

Stoicism named four primary passions:

• Distress is an irrational contraction or a fresh opinion that something bad is present at which people think it right to be depressed.
  • Envy is distress incurred by reason of a neighbor's prosperity.
  • Rivalry is distress, should another be in possession of the object desired and one has to go without it oneself.
  • Jealousy is distress arising from the fact that the thing one has coveted oneself is in the possession of the other man as well as one's own.
  • Compassion is distress arising from the wretchedness of a neighbor in undeserved suffering.
  • Anxiety is oppressive distress.
  • Mourning is distress arising from the untimely absence of a beloved person or thing.
  • Sadness is tearful distress.
  • Troubledness is burdensome distress.
  • Grief is torturing distress.
  • Lament is distress accompanied by wailing.
  • Depression is distress accompanied by brooding.
  • Vexation is lasting distress.
  • Despondency is distress without any prospect of amelioration.

• Fear is an irrational risk aversion or avoidance of an expected risk.
  • Sluggishness is fear of ensuing toil.
  • Shame is fear causing diffusion of blood.
  • Fright is paralyzing fear which causes paleness, trembling and chattering of teeth.
  • Timidity is fear of approaching evil.
  • Consternation is fear upsetting the mind balance.
  • Bewilderment is fear paralyzing thought.
  • Faintheartedness is lasting fear.

• Lust is an irrational desire or pursuit of an expected good; usually of a sexual nature.
  • Revenge is lust of punishing the man who is thought to have inflicted an undeserved injury.
  • Rage is anger springing up and suddenly showing itself.
  • Hatred is inveterate anger.
  • Enmity is anger watching as opportunity for revenge.
  • Wrath is anger of greater bitterness conceived in the innermost heart and soul.
  • Greed is insatiable lust.
  • Longing is lust of beholding someone/something who/what is not present.

• Delight is an irrational swelling or a fresh opinion that something good is present at which people think it right to be mania.
  • Malice is pleasure derived from a neighbor's evil which brings no advantage to oneself.
  • Rapture is pleasure soothing the soul by charm of the sense of hearing.
  • Smug is arrogance and a feeling of knowing everything
  • Ostentation is pleasure shown in outward demeanor and puffing oneself out extravagantly.

Plutchik's wheel of emotions

Robert Plutchik created a wheel of emotions in 1980 which consisted of 8 basic emotions and 8 advanced emotions each composed of 2 basic ones.¹

Emotions by groups

Here is a categorised, tree structured list of emotions as described in Parrot (2001).²

Lojban emotions

The artificial language Lojban has interjections expressing degrees of emotions. These include:

• Simple emotions
  • discovery - confusion
  • gain - loss
  • generosity - greed
  • surprise - no surprise - expectation
  • wonder - commonplace
  • happiness - unhappiness
  • amusement - weariness
  • completion - incompleteness
  • caring - loving
  • courage - timidity - cowardice
  • pity - cruelty
  • repentance - lack of regret - innocence
• Complex emotions
  • pride - modesty - shame
  • closeness - detachment - distance
  • complaint/pain - doing OK - pleasure
  • caution - boldness - rashness - drama
  • patience - mere tolerance - anger
  • relaxation - composure - stress
• Pure emotions
  • fear - nervousness - security
  • togetherness - privacy
  • respect - disrespect
  • appreciation - envy
  • love - indifference - hatred
  • familiarity - mystery
• Propositional attitudes
  • attentive - inattentive - avoiding
  • alertness - exhaustion
  • intent - indecision - refusal
  • effort - no real effort - repose
  • hope - despair
  • desire - indifference - reluctance
  • interest - no interest - repulsion
• Complex propositional attitudes
  • permission - prohibition
  • competence - incompetence
  • obligation - freedom
  • constraint - independence - resistance to constraint
  • request - negative request
  • suggestion - no suggestion - warning
  • understand - confused

See also

• Affect
• Emotional mood
• Emotion and memory
• Empathy
• Facial expression

References

External links

• http://www.emotionalcompetency.com/recognizing.htm That page presents lists from Ekman, Lazarus, Ortony et al., and Goleman.
• http://www.personalityresearch.org/basicemotions.html A table of basic emotions according to a variety of authors.
• http://www.taiwas.net/emotions Chart of 121 emotions (with 3D characteristic).
• http://www.eqi.org/fw.htm Extensive list of words (A thru S) describing feelings.