| admiration | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. admiration, esteem | a feeling of delighted approval and liking. |
| ~ liking | a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment.; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" |
| ~ anglophilia | admiration for Britain and British customs. |
| ~ hero worship | admiration for great men (or their memory). |
| ~ philhellenism | admiration for Greece and the Greeks and Greek customs. |
| ~ philogyny | admiration for women. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. admiration, wonder, wonderment | the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising. |
| ~ amazement, astonishment | the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising.; "he looked at me in astonishment" |
| ~ awe | an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration.; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" |
| n. (act) | 3. admiration, appreciation | a favorable judgment.; "a small token in admiration of your works" |
| ~ approval, approving, blessing | the formal act of approving.; "he gave the project his blessing"; "his decision merited the approval of any sensible person" |
| ~ idolisation, idolization, adoration | the act of admiring strongly. |
| ~ idealization, glorification, idealisation | a portrayal of something as ideal.; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading" |
| emotion | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. emotion | any strong feeling. |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ cer, conditioned emotion, conditioned emotional response | an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning. |
| ~ anger, ire, choler | a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance. |
| ~ fear, fearfulness, fright | an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight). |
| ~ reverence, veneration, awe, fear | a feeling of profound respect for someone or something.; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" |
| ~ anxiety | a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune. |
| ~ joy, joyfulness, joyousness | the emotion of great happiness. |
| ~ love | a strong positive emotion of regard and affection.; "his love for his work"; "children need a lot of love" |
| ~ hate, hatred | the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action. |
| ~ emotional state, spirit | the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection).; "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose" |
| feeling | | |
| n. (tops) | 1. feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ affect | the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion. |
| ~ emotion | any strong feeling. |
| ~ thing | a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion.; "he has a thing about seafood"; "she has a thing about him" |
| ~ glow | a feeling of considerable warmth.; "the glow of new love"; "a glow of regret" |
| ~ faintness | a feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon. |
| ~ soulfulness, soul | deep feeling or emotion. |
| ~ passion, passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion. |
| ~ sentiment | tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion. |
| ~ complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior. |
| ~ ambivalence, ambivalency | mixed feelings or emotions. |
| ~ apathy | an absence of emotion or enthusiasm. |
| ~ desire | the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state. |
| ~ sexual urge, sex | all of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses.; "he wanted a better sex life"; "the film contained no sex or violence" |
| ~ pleasure, pleasance | a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience.; "he was tingling with pleasure" |
| ~ painfulness, pain | emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid.; "the pain of loneliness" |
| ~ pang, stab, twinge | a sudden sharp feeling.; "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience" |
| ~ liking | a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment.; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin" |
| ~ dislike | a feeling of aversion or antipathy.; "my dislike of him was instinctive" |
| ~ gratitude | a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation.; "he was overwhelmed with gratitude for their help" |
| ~ ingratitude, ungratefulness | a lack of gratitude. |
| ~ unconcern | a feeling of lack of concern. |
| ~ shame | a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt. |
| ~ pride, pridefulness | a feeling of self-respect and personal worth. |
| ~ humbleness, humility | a humble feeling.; "he was filled with humility at the sight of the Pope" |
| ~ amazement, astonishment | the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising.; "he looked at me in astonishment" |
| ~ devastation | the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed.; "her departure left him in utter devastation" |
| ~ expectation | the feeling that something is about to happen. |
| ~ levity | feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness. |
| ~ solemnity, gravity | a solemn and dignified feeling. |
| ~ sensitiveness, sensitivity | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others). |
| ~ agitation | the feeling of being agitated; not calm. |
| ~ calmness | a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement. |
| ~ fearlessness, bravery | feeling no fear. |
| ~ happiness | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being. |
| ~ sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
| ~ hope | the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope" |
| ~ despair | the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well.; "they moaned in despair and dismay"; "one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair" |
| ~ affection, affectionateness, philia, warmness, fondness, warmheartedness, tenderness, heart | a positive feeling of liking.; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" |
| ~ humour, mood, temper, humor | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling.; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor" |
| ~ fellow feeling, sympathy | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). |
| ~ enthusiasm | a feeling of excitement. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. belief, feeling, impression, notion, opinion | a vague idea in which some confidence is placed.; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" |
| ~ idea, thought | the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about.; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" |
| ~ presence | the impression that something is present.; "he felt the presence of an evil force" |
| ~ effect | an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived).; "he just did it for effect" |
| ~ first blush | at the first glimpse or impression.; "at first blush the idea possesses considerable intuitive appeal but on closer examination it fails" |
| ~ hunch, suspicion, intuition | an impression that something might be the case.; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" |
| n. (state) | 3. feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone | the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" |
| ~ ambiance, ambience, atmosphere | a particular environment or surrounding influence.; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" |
| ~ hollywood | a flashy vulgar tone or atmosphere believed to be characteristic of the American film industry.; "some people in publishing think of theirs as a glamorous medium so they copy the glitter of Hollywood" |
| ~ zeitgeist | the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation. |
| n. (cognition) | 4. feeling | a physical sensation that you experience.; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm" |
| ~ somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia | the perception of tactual or proprioceptive or gut sensations.; "he relied on somesthesia to warn him of pressure changes" |
| ~ tightness, constriction | a tight feeling in some part of the body.; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. feeling, tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation | the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin.; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" |
| ~ perception | the process of perceiving. |
| ~ creepiness | an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin. |
| ~ cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation | a sensation localized on the skin. |
| n. (cognition) | 6. feeling, intuitive feeling | an intuitive understanding of something.; "he had a great feeling for music" |
| ~ intuition | instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes). |
| ~ sprachgefuhl | an intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language.; "Dubyuh has no sprachgefuhl" |
| passion | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. passion, passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion. |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ infatuation | a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration. |
| ~ wildness, abandon | a feeling of extreme emotional intensity.; "the wildness of his anger" |
| ~ fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, ardor, ardour, fire | feelings of great warmth and intensity.; "he spoke with great ardor" |
| ~ storminess | violent passion in speech or action.; "frightened by the storminess of their argument" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. heat, passion, warmth | the trait of being intensely emotional. |
| ~ emotionalism, emotionality | emotional nature or quality. |
| ~ fieriness | a passionate and quick-tempered nature. |
| n. (state) | 3. passion, rage | something that is desired intensely.; "his rage for fame destroyed him" |
| ~ desire | something that is desired. |
| n. (motive) | 4. cacoethes, mania, passion | an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action. |
| ~ irrational motive | a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic. |
| ~ agromania | an intense desire to be alone or out in the open. |
| ~ dipsomania, potomania, alcoholism | an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess. |
| ~ egomania | an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs. |
| ~ kleptomania | an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive. |
| ~ logomania, logorrhea | pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking. |
| ~ monomania, possession | a mania restricted to one thing or idea. |
| ~ necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism | an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies. |
| ~ phaneromania | an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting). |
| ~ pyromania | an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things. |
| ~ trichotillomania | an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair. |
| n. (feeling) | 5. passion | a feeling of strong sexual desire. |
| ~ concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros | a desire for sexual intimacy. |
| n. (cognition) | 6. love, passion | any object of warm affection or devotion.; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting" |
| ~ object | the focus of cognitions or feelings.; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection" |
| n. (state) | 7. passion, passion of christ | the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion. |
| ~ excruciation, suffering, agony | a state of acute pain. |
| piety | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. piety, piousness | righteousness by virtue of being pious. |
| ~ righteousness | adhering to moral principles. |
| ~ devoutness, religiousness | piety by virtue of being devout. |
| ~ dutifulness | piety by virtue of devotion to duty. |
| ~ godliness | piety by virtue of being a godly person. |
| sensation | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. aesthesis, esthesis, sensation, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression | an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation.; "a sensation of touch" |
| ~ perception | the process of perceiving. |
| ~ limen, threshold | the smallest detectable sensation. |
| ~ masking | the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation.; "he studied auditory masking by pure tones" |
| ~ visual sensation, vision | the perceptual experience of seeing.; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" |
| ~ odour, olfactory perception, olfactory sensation, smell, odor | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form.; "she loved the smell of roses" |
| ~ gustatory perception, gustatory sensation, taste, taste perception, taste sensation | the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus.; "the candy left him with a bad taste"; "the melon had a delicious taste" |
| ~ auditory sensation, sound | the subjective sensation of hearing something.; "he strained to hear the faint sounds" |
| ~ synaesthesia, synesthesia | a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated. |
| n. (person) | 2. ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, sensation, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field. |
| ~ expert | a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully. |
| ~ track star | a star runner. |
| n. (feeling) | 3. sensation | a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest.; "anticipation produced in me a sensation somewhere between hope and fear" |
| ~ stir | emotional agitation and excitement. |
| n. (state) | 4. sensation | a state of widespread public excitement and interest.; "the news caused a sensation" |
| ~ excitation, fervour, excitement, fervor, inflammation | the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up.; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency | the faculty through which the external world is apprehended.; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" |
| ~ faculty, mental faculty, module | one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind. |
| ~ sense modality, sensory system, modality | a particular sense. |
| ~ sensitivity, sensitiveness, sensibility | (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation.; "sensitivity to pain" |
| sentiment | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. sentiment | tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion. |
| ~ feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states.; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" |
| ~ sentimentality | extravagant or affected feeling or emotion. |
| ~ razbliuto | the sentimental feeling you have about someone you once loved but no longer do. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought, view | a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" |
| ~ idea | a personal view.; "he has an idea that we don't like him" |
| ~ judgment, judgement, mind | an opinion formed by judging something.; "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind" |
| ~ belief | any cognitive content held as true. |
| ~ eyes | opinion or judgment.; "in the eyes of the law"; "I was wrong in her eyes" |
| ~ parti pris, preconceived idea, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, preconception, prepossession | an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence.; "he did not even try to confirm his preconceptions" |
| ~ pole | one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions.; "they are at opposite poles"; "they are poles apart" |
| ~ political sympathies, politics | the opinion you hold with respect to political questions. |
| hear | | |
| v. (perception) | 1. hear | perceive (sound) via the auditory sense. |
| ~ perceive, comprehend | to become aware of through the senses.; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon" |
| ~ overhear, take in, catch | hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers.; "We overheard the conversation at the next table" |
| ~ catch, get | perceive by hearing.; "I didn't catch your name"; "She didn't get his name when they met the first time" |
| v. (cognition) | 2. discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up, see | get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally.; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" |
| ~ get the goods | discover some bad or hidden information about.; "She got the goods on her co-worker after reading his e-mail" |
| ~ wise up | get wise to.; "They wised up to it" |
| ~ trip up, catch | detect a blunder or misstep.; "The reporter tripped up the senator" |
| ~ ascertain | learn or discover with certainty. |
| ~ discover, find | make a discovery.; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" |
| ~ witness, see, find | perceive or be contemporaneous with.; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" |
| v. (social) | 3. hear, try | examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process.; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California" |
| ~ probe, examine | question or examine thoroughly and closely. |
| ~ rehear, retry | hear or try a court case anew. |
| v. (perception) | 4. hear | receive a communication from someone.; "We heard nothing from our son for five years" |
| ~ receive, pick up | register (perceptual input).; "pick up a signal" |
| v. (perception) | 5. hear, listen, take heed | listen and pay attention.; "Listen to your father"; "We must hear the expert before we make a decision" |
| ~ focus, pore, rivet, center, centre, concentrate | direct one's attention on something.; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" |
| ~ incline | bend or turn (one's ear) towards a speaker in order to listen well.; "He inclined his ear to the wise old man" |
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