- He showed no emotion as he walked into the witness box.
- Overcome by emotion, she found herself unable to speak for a few minutes.
- The British traditionally tend not to display much emotion in public.
- As an actor he could communicate a whole range of emotions.
- The manager warned his young players not to get carried away by the emotion of the occasion.
Meaning of emotion in English
(Definition of emotion from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
emotion | Business English
Advertising traditionally relies on the persuasive power of positive emotions.
Examples of emotion
emotion
Looking time is recorded, and longer looking at the novel stimulus permits the inference that the infant has discriminated the two emotions.
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Research should also examine the way that child gender may influence the development and use of emotion regulation strategies in physically maltreated children.
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For the existential stressor, emotion-focused approach strategies were reported most frequently.
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Obviously that leads you back into the past, into memory, into repressed emotions.
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Here, a story-completion approach was also used around attachment and emotion themes, and children were asked to complete the stories and describe the characters' feelings.
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Can emotions and themes in children's play predict behavior problems?
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Lower levels of empathy may contribute to conflict in social interactions and thereby heighten levels of negative emotions experienced by some children.
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Narrative form integrates situations and context, and less salient cues, to infer whether an emotion indicates suffering or something else.
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Unlike other emotions, anger may be especially helpful in providing information about the behavioral intentions of others.
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These areas otherwise contribute to the production of emotion, cognition, and somatosensory awareness.
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It places that research in the context of the neobehaviorist theory of emotions.
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Despite reported racial differences in preferences for end-of-life care, patients have individualized needs for information, discussion of emotions, and decision-making collaboration.
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Moreover, personal and institutional interpretation of an emotion could be quite different.
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It may be that maltreated girls tend toward inhibiting emotion and, as a result, are less likely to engage in such externally directed dysregulated behaviors.
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I will begin with a discussion of definitions of emotion and emotion-laden words.
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Collocations with emotion
emotion
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basic emotion
Affective researchers have also proposed that each basic emotion is associated with a characteristic facial expression.
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complex emotion
No reported program to date has systematically trained complex emotion recognition in both visual and auditory channels, with lifelike faces and voices.
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conflicting emotions
However, a distinguishing feature of hypsos in rhetorical studies is that it combines conflicting emotions: fear and awe, horror and fascinations.
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भावना, प्रेम किंवा राग अशा तीव्र भावना किंवा सर्वसाधारणपणे तीव्र भावना…
感情, 感情（かんじょう）…
his, duygu, coşku…
émotion [feminine], émotion…
emoció…
gevoelen, emotie…
காதல் அல்லது கோபம் போன்ற வலுவான உணர்வு அல்லது பொதுவாக வலுவான உணர்வுகள்…
भावना…
લાગણીઓ, લાગણી…
følelse, sindsbevægelse…
[stark] känsla, sinnesrörelse, känslosvall…
perasaan, emosi…
die Gefühlsbewegung, das Gefühl…
følelse [masculine], (sterk) følelse, sinnsbevegelse…
جذبہ, جذبات, ولولہ…
почуття, емоція, хвилювання…
чувство…
అనోద్వేగం, భావోద్వేగం, ప్రేమ…
عَاطِفة, إحْساس…
আবেগ, একটি চূড়ান্ত অনুভূতি যেমন প্রেম বা রাগ…
emoce, dojetí…
perasaan, emosi…
อารมณ์, ความรู้สึก, สภาวะอารมณ์ที่ไม่ปรกติ…
cảm xúc, sự xúc động…
uczucie, emocja, wzruszenie…
감정…
emozione, sentimento…
