Emotion is an English word with synonyms like feeling. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Emotion in a sentence
Related words
Emotion meaning
- Movement; agitation.
- A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
- A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
Synonyms of Emotion
Using Emotion
- The main meaning on this page is: Movement; agitation. | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. | A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
- Useful related words include: feeling.
- In the example corpus, emotion often appears in combinations such as: emotion and, of emotion, the emotion.
Example sentences (20)
The situated perspective on emotion states that conceptual thought is not an inherent part of emotion, since emotion is an action-oriented form of skillful engagement with the world.
Some of us think with emotion and some with reason … sometimes it’s good to put emotion and reason together, it’s a perfect balance.
Anticipatory emotion and investment decisions in non-professional investors’ found the level of emotion experienced depends on context — the level of the share price at the time of trading.
After all, He created us able to experience this emotion, and while He doesn't want it in charge of our lives it has its place along with every other emotion.
But it feels to me like there might be a receptivity now precisely because we see that it’s not getting us anywhere to be meeting my emotion with your emotion.
I feel, either I will get too much drawn into the emotion of my character or I might not be able to go to the depths of the required emotion.
Tedros said there was a need to balance “emotion and reason” in the response, adding that the reaction appeared to be “more emotion”.
An example of this theory in action would be as follows: An emotion-evoking stimulus (snake) triggers a pattern of physiological response (increased heart rate, faster breathing, etc.), which is interpreted as a particular emotion (fear).
Current research suggests that emotion is an essential part of any human decision-making and planning, and the famous distinction made between reason and emotion is not as clear as it seems.
He has put forward a more nuanced view which response to what he has called the ‘standard objection’ to cognitivism, the idea that a judgment that something is fearsome can occur with or without emotion, so judgment cannot be identified with emotion.
In contrast, a situationist perspective on emotion views emotion as the product of an organism investigating its environment, and observing the responses of other organisms.
Interestingly, Marañón found that most of these patients felt something but in the absence of an actual emotion-evoking stimulus, the patients were unable to interpret their physiological arousal as an experienced emotion.
Research on social emotion also focuses on the physical displays of emotion including body language of animals and humans (see affect display ).
A crowd favorite, “champagne problems” captivated the room as Swift played the piano and sang the infamous bridge with raw emotion.
A huge outpouring of emotion as he spins through 180 degrees to punch the air and scream his delight!
AI can never be a threat to that creativity; it will never have the full range of human emotion and quirkiness.
Airlines are run on data, not emotion.
Alec and his enthusiastic assistants work on looking beyond the evidence to unpack the human emotion at the heart of their cases.
All of a sudden the ‘I was there’ emotion was turned into a ‘I wish I wasn’t here’ feeling.
Also emotion-wise, it’s sometimes not easy.
Common combinations with emotion
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- emotion and 34×
- of emotion 27×
- the emotion 25×
- with emotion 17×
- and emotion 12×
- emotion that 11×
- emotion of 10×
- emotion as 7×
- an emotion 7×
- emotion in 7×