Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
- abandon
- a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
- abashment
- feeling embarrassed due to modesty
- abhorrence
- hate coupled with disgust
- acquired taste
- a preference that is only acquired after considerable experience
- addiction
- an abnormally strong craving
- admiration
- a feeling of delighted approval and liking
- admiration
- the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
- adoration
- a feeling of profound love and admiration
- affect
- the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
- affection
- a positive feeling of liking
- affright
- an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- afterglow
- the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event
- agape
- (Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind
- agape
- selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature)
- aggravation
- an exasperated feeling of annoyance
- aggression
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- agitation
- the feeling of being agitated; not calm
- agony
- intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
- alarm
- fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- algolagnia
- sexual pleasure derived from inflicting or experiencing pain
- alienation
- the feeling of being alienated from other people
- alleviation
- the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced
- aloofness
- indifference by personal withdrawal
- amativeness
- the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
- amazement
- the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
- ambition
- a cherished desire
- ambivalence
- mixed feelings or emotions
- American Dream
- the widespread aspiration of Americans to live better than their parents did
- amiability
- a cheerful and agreeable mood
- amicability
- a disinclination to quarrel
- amorousness
- a feeling of love or fondness
- amour propre
- feelings of excessive pride
- amusement
- a feeling of delight at being entertained
- anaphrodisia
- decline or absence of sexual desire
- anger
- a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Anglophilia
- admiration for Britain and British customs
- Anglophobia
- dislike (or fear) of Britain and British customs
- angst
- an acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom
- anguish
- extreme mental distress
- animosity
- a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility
- annoyance
- anger produced by some annoying irritation
- antagonism
- an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility
- anticipation
- an expectation
- antipathy
- a feeling of intense dislike
- anxiety
- a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune
- anxiousness
- a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments
- apathy
- an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
- aphrodisia
- a desire for heterosexual intimacy
- appetence
- a feeling of craving something
- appreciativeness
- warm friendly feelings of gratitude
- apprehension
- fearful expectation or anticipation
- approbation
- official approval
- approval
- a feeling of liking something or someone good
- ardor
- intense feeling of love
- ardor
- a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
- ardor
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- ataraxis
- the absence of mental stress or anxiety
- attachment
- a feeling of affection for a person or an institution
- attrition
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
- avidity
- a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
- awe
- an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
- awe
- a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- bad temper
- a persisting angry mood
- bang
- the swift release of a store of affective force
- bathos
- insincere pathos
- belligerence
- hostile or warlike attitude or nature
- belonging
- happiness felt in a secure relationship
- beneficence
- doing good; feeling beneficent
- benevolence
- disposition to do good
- bitterness
- a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
- blahs
- a general feeling of boredom and dissatisfaction
- blitheness
- a feeling of spontaneous good spirits
- bloodlust
- a desire for bloodshed
- boding
- a feeling of evil to come
- bonheur
- (French) happiness and good humor
- boredom
- the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- bravery
- feeling no fear
- bright side
- a consoling aspect of a difficult situation
- broken heart
- devastating sorrow and despair
- brokenheartedness
- intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
- brooding
- persistent morbid meditation on a problem
- brotherhood
- the feeling that men should treat one another like brothers
- buck fever
- nervous excitement of an inexperienced hunter
- buoyancy
- cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
- calf love
- temporary love of an adolescent
- calmness
- a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement
- caprice
- a sudden desire
- captivation
- a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual
- care
- a cause for feeling concern
- care
- an anxious feeling
- carefreeness
- the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
- caring
- a loving feeling
- carnality
- feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
- chafing
- soreness or irritation of the skin caused by friction
- chagrin
- strong feelings of embarrassment
- cheerlessness
- a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness
- chill
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
- chill
- a sudden numbing dread
- choler
- an irritable petulant feeling
- class feeling
- feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another
- closeness
- a feeling of being intimate and belonging together
- cold comfort
- very limited consolation or empathy
- cold feet
- timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action
- coldheartedness
- an absence of concern for the welfare of others
- comfort
- a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment
- comfortableness
- a feeling of being at ease in a relationship
- commiseration
- a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
- compassion
- a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
- compatibility
- a feeling of sympathetic understanding
- complacence
- the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself
- complex
- (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior
- compunction
- a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)
- concern
- a feeling of sympathy for someone or something
- concupiscence
- a desire for sexual intimacy
- confidence
- a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
- conflict
- opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings
- confusion
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- conscience
- a feeling of shame when you do something immoral
- consolation
- the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment
- contempt
- lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- contentment
- happiness with one's situation in life
- coolness
- calm and unruffled self-assurance
- covetousness
- an envious eagerness to possess something
- craving
- an intense desire for some particular thing
- creeps
- a feeling of fear and revulsion
- creepy-crawlies
- feelings of dislike and anxiety
- cruelty
- feelings of extreme heartlessness
- cynicism
- a cynical feeling of distrust
- dander
- a feeling of anger and animosity
- daze
- the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally
- defeat
- the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- defeatism
- acceptance of the inevitability of defeat
- dejectedness
- a feeling of low spirits
- delectation
- a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- demoralisation
- depression resulting from an undermining of your morale
- depression
- sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
- desire
- the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- desolation
- sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
- despair
- the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
- despisal
- a feeling of scornful hatred
- despondence
- feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
- detachment
- avoiding emotional involvement
- devastation
- the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed
- devotedness
- feelings of ardent love
- diffidence
- lack of self-confidence
- disappointment
- a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized
- disapproval
- a feeling of disliking something or what someone is doing
- discomfiture
- anxious embarrassment
- discomfort
- an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
- discontent
- a longing for something better than the present situation
- discouragement
- the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
- disgruntlement
- a feeling of sulky discontent
- disgust
- strong feelings of dislike
- disinclination
- that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike
- dislike
- a feeling of aversion or antipathy
- displeasure
- the feeling of being displeased or annoyed or dissatisfied with someone or something
- disquietude
- feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
- dissatisfaction
- the feeling of being displeased and discontent
- distemper
- an angry and disagreeable mood
- distress
- psychological suffering
- dolefulness
- sadness caused by grief or affliction
- dolor
- (poetry) painful grief
- dreaminess
- a relaxed comfortable feeling
- dudgeon
- a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon')
- dysphoria
- abnormal depression and discontent
- earnestness
- an earnest and sincere feeling
- easiness
- a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry
- ego
- an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- elation
- a feeling of joy and pride
- Electra complex
- a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father
- electricity
- keen and shared excitement
- embarrassment
- the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public
- emotion
- any strong feeling
- emotionlessness
- apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
- empathy
- understanding and entering into another's feelings
- emulation
- ambition to equal or excel
- encouragement
- the feeling of being encouraged
- enjoyment
- the pleasure felt when having a good time
- enmity
- the feeling of a hostile person
- enragement
- a feeling of intense anger
- enthusiasm
- a feeling of excitement
- entrancement
- a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment
- enviousness
- a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another
- erotic love
- a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
- euphoria
- a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation
- excitement
- the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
- expectation
- the feeling that something is about to happen
- exuberance
- joyful enthusiasm
- exultation
- a feeling of extreme joy
- faintness
- a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon
- fancy
- a predisposition to like something
- fatigue
- (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something
- favor
- a feeling of favorable regard
- fear
- an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- feelings
- emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity)
- fellow feeling
- sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
- fetish
- a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body
- fever
- intense nervous anticipation
- fidget
- a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion
- filial love
- the love of a child for a parent
- forgiveness
- compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive
- friendliness
- a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company
- frustration
- a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
- fulfillment
- a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires
- fury
- a feeling of intense anger
- gaiety
- a gay feeling
- gaiety
- a festive merry feeling
- gladfulness
- experiencing joy and pleasure
- glee
- great merriment
- glee
- malicious satisfaction
- gloom
- a feeling of melancholy apprehension
- glow
- a feeling of considerable warmth
- glumness
- a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
- gold fever
- greed and the contagious excitement of a gold rush
- good will
- the friendly hope that something will succeed
- gratitude
- a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
- gravity
- a solemn and dignified feeling
- green-eyed monster
- a feeling of jealous envy (especially of a rival)
- grievance
- a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
- growing pains
- emotional distress arising during adolescence
- guilt pang
- pangs of feeling guilty
- guilt
- remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense
- gusto
- vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment
- hankering
- a yearning for something or to do something
- happiness
- emotions experienced when in a state of well-being
- harassment
- a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented
- hate
- the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- heartburning
- intense resentment
- heartstrings
- your deepest feelings of love and compassion
- heaviness
- persisting sadness
- heavyheartedness
- a feeling of dispirited melancholy
- helplessness
- a feeling of being unable to manage
- hero worship
- admiration for great men (or their memory)
- hesitance
- a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something
- homesickness
- a longing to return home
- hope
- a specific instance of feeling hopeful
- hope
- the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled
- hopefulness
- the feeling you have when you have hope
- hopelessness
- the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
- horror
- intense and profound fear
- horror
- intense aversion
- huffiness
- a passing state of anger and resentment
- huffishness
- a feeling of sulky resentment
- humbleness
- a humble feeling
- humor
- a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- hungriness
- prolonged unfulfilled desire or need
- hurt
- feelings of mental or physical pain
- hysteria
- excessive or uncontrollable fear
- impatience
- a restless desire for change and excitement
- inclination
- that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
- indifference
- unbiased impartial unconcern
- indignation
- a feeling of righteous anger
- infatuation
- a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
- inferiority complex
- a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated
- ingratitude
- a lack of gratitude
- insecurity
- the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure
- insight
- a feeling of understanding
- intertrigo
- chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)
- intimidation
- the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
- intimidation
- the feeling of discouragement in the face of someone's superior fame or wealth or status etc.
- intoxication
- excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety
- irascibility
- a feeling of resentful anger
- irritation
- a sudden outburst of anger
- isolation
- a feeling of being disliked and alone
- itch
- a strong restless desire
- jitteriness
- the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters
- jocularity
- a feeling facetious merriment
- joie de vivre
- a keen enjoyment of living
- jolliness
- feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor
- joy
- the emotion of great happiness
- joylessness
- a feeling of dismal cheerlessness
- kindheartedness
- sympathy arising from a kind heart
- languor
- a feeling of lack of interest or energy
- leaning
- an inclination to do something
- lecherousness
- a strong sexual desire
- levity
- feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness
- libido
- (psychoanalysis) a Freudian term for sexual urge or desire
- liking
- a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
- lividity
- a state of fury so great the face becomes discolored
- love
- a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
- lovesickness
- a pining for a loved one
- loyalty
- feelings of allegiance
- maleficence
- doing or causing evil
- malevolence
- wishing evil to others
- malice
- feeling a need to see others suffer
- masochism
- sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological)
- meekness
- the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness
- melancholy
- a feeling of thoughtful sadness
- mellowness
- a feeling of good humor and sympathy through maturity or intoxication or a relaxed state
- mental anguish
- sustained dull painful emotion
- mercifulness
- the feeling that motivates compassion
- misanthropy
- hatred of mankind
- misery
- a feeling of intense unhappiness
- misgiving
- uneasiness about the fitness of an action
- misocainea
- hatred of new ideas
- misogamy
- hatred of marriage
- misogynism
- hatred of women
- misology
- hatred of reasoning
- misoneism
- hatred of change or innovation
- misopedia
- hatred of children
- moodiness
- a sullen gloomy feeling
- mournfulness
- a state of gloomy sorrow
- murderousness
- a bloodthirsty hatred arousing murderous impulses
- mysoandry
- hatred for men or boys
- mysophilia
- abnormal attraction to filth
- nationalism
- the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
- nausea
- disgust so strong it makes you feel sick
- nostalgia
- longing for something past
- nymphomania
- abnormally intense sexual desire in women
- Oedipus complex
- a complex of males; desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father; said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved
- offence
- a feeling of anger caused by being offended
- oppression
- a feeling of being oppressed
- optimism
- the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well
- oversensitiveness
- sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset
- pain
- emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
- pang
- a sudden sharp feeling
- panic attack
- a sudden attack of fear
- passion
- a feeling of strong sexual desire
- passion
- a strong feeling or emotion
- peeve
- an annoyed or irritated mood
- penance
- remorse for your past conduct
- penchant
- a strong liking
- penis envy
- (psychoanalysis) a female's presumed envy of the male's penis; said to explain femininity
- pessimism
- the feeling that things will turn out badly
- pet
- a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
- philhellenism
- admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs
- philogyny
- admiration for women
- pining
- a feeling of deep longing
- placidity
- a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling
- plaintiveness
- expressing sorrowfulness
- pleasance
- a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
- pleasantness
- the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
- presage
- a foreboding about what is about to happen
- pride
- satisfaction with your (or another's) achievements
- pride
- a feeling of self-respect and personal worth
- protectiveness
- a feeling of protective affection
- quietness
- a state of peace and quiet
- razbliuto
- the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do
- regard
- a feeling of friendship and esteem
- regret
- sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
- rejoicing
- a feeling of great happiness
- resignation
- acceptance of despair
- rhapsody
- an enthusiastic expression of emotion
- sadism
- sexual pleasure obtained by inflicting harm (physical or psychological) on others
- sadness
- emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
- sadomasochism
- sadism and masochism combined in one person
- sanguineness
- feeling sanguine; optimistically cheerful and confident
- satisfaction
- the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation
- satyriasis
- abnormally intense sexual desire in men
- Schadenfreude
- delight in another person's misfortune
- scunner
- a strong dislike
- security
- freedom from anxiety or fear
- self-consciousness
- embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
- self-depreciation
- a feeling of being of little worth
- self-disgust
- shame resulting from strong dislike of yourself or your actions
- self-esteem
- a feeling of pride in yourself
- self-pity
- a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings
- self-torment
- self-imposed distress
- sensation
- a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest
- sensibility
- refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
- sensitiveness
- sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)
- sensualism
- desire for sensual pleasures
- sensuousness
- a sensuous feeling
- sentiment
- tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion
- sentimentality
- extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
- sex
- all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses
- sexual pleasure
- pleasure derived from sexual activities
- shadow
- a premonition of something adverse
- shame
- a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt
- shamefacedness
- feeling embarrassed about yourself
- shyness
- a feeling of fear of embarrassment
- sinking
- a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension
- smugness
- an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
- soft spot
- a sentimental affection
- softheartedness
- a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
- solicitousness
- a feeling of excessive concern
- sorrow
- an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
- soul
- deep feeling or emotion
- stage fright
- fear that affects a person about to face an audience
- stewing
- an extreme state of worry and agitation
- stir
- emotional agitation and excitement
- stomach
- an appetite for food
- stomach
- an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
- storminess
- violent passion in speech or action
- stupefaction
- a feeling of stupefied astonishment
- sulk
- a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal
- surprise
- the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you
- survivor guilt
- a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died
- suspense
- excited anticipation of an approaching climax
- suspense
- apprehension about what is going to happen
- sweet tooth
- a strong appetite for sweet food
- swivet
- a panic or extreme discomposure
- tearfulness
- sadness expressed by weeping
- technophilia
- enthusiasm for new technology
- technophobia
- dislike for new technology
- temptation
- the desire to have or do something that you know you should avoid
- tenderheartedness
- warm compassionate feelings
- testiness
- feeling easily irritated
- the hots
- intense sexual desire
- thing
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- throes
- violent pangs of suffering
- timidity
- fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions
- titillation
- a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling)
- togetherness
- affectionate closeness
- trepidation
- a feeling of alarm or dread
- triumph
- the exultation of victory
- trouble
- a strong feeling of anxiety
- tsoris
- (Yiddish) trouble and suffering
- tumult
- violent agitation
- unassertiveness
- diffidence about self promotion
- unconcern
- a feeling of lack of concern
- undertow
- an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling
- unfriendliness
- dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness
- unpleasantness
- the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling
- unrest
- a feeling of restless agitation
- velleity
- a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain
- vengefulness
- a malevolent desire for revenge
- want
- a specific feeling of desire
- warmheartedness
- a warmhearted feeling
- warpath
- hostile or belligerent mood
- weakness
- a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you
- weight
- an oppressive feeling of heavy force
- Weltschmerz
- sadness on thinking about the evils of the world
- willies
- feelings of uneasiness
- wishfulness
- an unrealistic yearning
- wistfulness
- a sadly pensive longing
- woe
- intense mournfulness
- wound
- a figurative injury (to your feelings or pride)
- wrath
- intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
- zeal
- excessive fervor to do something or accomplish some end