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List of emotions

This is a list of emotions.

According to Robert Plutchik's psychoevolutionary theory

The basic eight emotions are:

• fear (or terror, shock, phobia)
• anger (or rage, which can be directed to the self or others)
• sorrow (or sadness, or grief or depression [which some people think of a separate emotion-see depression)
• joy (happiness, glee, gladness).
• disgust
• acceptance
• anticipation
• surprise

According to Book Two of Aristotle's Rhetoric

The emotions are:

• Anger vs. Calmness
• Friendship (Love) vs. Enmity
• Fear vs. Confidence
• Shame vs. Shamelessness
• Kindness vs. Unkindness
• Pity
• Indignation
• Envy

The artificial language Lojban

It has interjections expressing degrees of these emotions:

• Simple emotions
  • discovery - confusion
  • gain - loss
  • surprise - no surprise - expectation
  • wonder - commonplace
  • happiness - unhappiness
  • amusement - weariness
  • completion - incompleteness
  • 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
  • patience - mere tolerance - anger
  • relaxation - composure - stress
• Pure emotions
  • fear - nervousness - security
  • togetherness - privacy
  • respect - disrespect
  • appreciation - envy
  • love - no love lost - 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

Complete list of emotions

• Acceptance, Amusement, Anger, Anticipation
• Calmness, Comfort, Confidence, Cool, Courage
• Depression, Disgust, Desire
• Envy, Fear, Friendship,
• Grief, Guilt, Glee, Gladness
• Hate, Happiness, Hope
• Joy, Jealousy,
• Kindness
• Love
• Pain, Patience, Peace, Phobia
• Rage, Remorse, Repentance
• Sadness, Shame, Sorrow, Shock, Suffering, Surprise
• Terror

Intensity of emotions

Emotions could be arraged accordinly Intensity. For example, fist emotion in pair is less intense

• sympathy and love
• disgust and hate

See also

• affect
• emotion
• empathy
• facial expression
• mood

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