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 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

See also:

Emotion theory, Empathy, Facial expression

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