Emotion and Mood


In psychology, philosophy, and their many subsets, emotion is the generic term for subjective, conscious experience that is characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states.

emotion n : any strong feeling

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "emotion": a high, affect, affection, affectivity, arousal, attitude, emotional charge, emotional shade, emotivity, excitability, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, experience, feeling, feeling tone, foreboding, gut reaction, heartthrob, impression, manic state, mental attitude, opinion, passion, position, posture, presentiment, profound sense, psychology, reaction, response, responsiveness, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, stance, stimulation, susceptibilities, undercurrent, way of thinking

Emotion \E*mo"tion\, n. [L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. ['e]motion. See {Move}, and cf. {Emmove}.] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. [1913 Webster] How different the emotions between departure and return! --W. Irving. [1913 Webster] Some vague emotion of delight. --Tennyson. Syn: Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. Usage: {Emotion}, {Feeling}, {Agitation}. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may be bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See {Passion}. ``Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing.'' --Crabb. [1913 Webster]




mood n 1: 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" [syn: {temper}, {humor}, {humour}] 2: the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: {climate}] 3: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: {mode}, {modality}]

112 Moby Thesaurus words for "mood": Aristotelian sorites, Goclenian sorites, action, affection, air, anagnorisis, angle, architectonics, architecture, argument, atmosphere, attitude, aura, background, catastrophe, categorical syllogism, character, characterization, color, complication, conditional, continuity, contrivance, cue, denouement, design, development, device, dilemma, disposition, eager, emotion, enthymeme, episode, fable, falling action, feel, feeling, figure, frame, frame of mind, gimmick, heart, humor, imperative, in the mood, incident, inclination, inclined, indicative, individuality, jussive, keen, line, local color, mind, minded, mode, modus tollens, morale, motif, movement, mythos, nature, note, obligative, optative, paralogism, peripeteia, permissive, personality, plan, plot, potential, prosyllogism, pseudosyllogism, ready, recognition, response, rising action, rule, rule of deduction, scheme, secondary plot, semblance, sense, slant, sorites, soul, spirit, spirits, state of mind, story, strain, structure, subject, subjunctive, subplot, switch, syllogism, sympathetic, temper, temperament, thematic development, theme, timbre, tone, topic, twist, vein, well-disposed, willing

Mood \Mood\ (m[=oo]d), n. [The same word as mode, perh. influenced by mood temper. See {Mode}.] 1. Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See {Mode} which is the preferable form). [1913 Webster] 2. (Gram.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as {Mode}. [1913 Webster]

Mood \Mood\, n. [OE. mood, mod, AS. m[=o]dmind, feeling, heart, courage; akin to OS. & OFries. m[=o]d, D. moed, OHG. muot, G. muth, mut, courage, Dan. & Sw. mod, Icel. m[=o][eth]r wrath, Goth. m[=o]ds.] Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. [1913 Webster] Till at the last aslaked was his mood. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. --Shak. [1913 Webster] The desperate recklessness of her mood. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]

Data Sources:

  • emotion: WordNet (r) 2.0
  • emotion: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
  • emotion: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44
  • emotion: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
  • mood: WordNet (r) 2.0
  • mood: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
  • mood: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44
  • mood: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44

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