emotional state
How you feel
An emotional state is a person's current feeling or mood—the particular configuration of emotions someone experiences at a given moment.
The term appears in psychology and everyday speech to describe temporary conditions like anxiety, joy, or grief: Her emotional state was fragile after the divorce.
Unlike personality traits, emotional states are transient, shifting with circumstances.
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- aweReverent fear and wonder
- contemptDisdainful disregard
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- disgustIntense physical aversion
nostalgia · gratitude · shame · embarrassment · emotional baggage · broken heart · fear · fight or flight · turmoil · nervous wreck · jealousy · joy · guilt · frustration · excitement · affect · frame of mind · love
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- emotion sensingemotional cues, smile detection, microexpressions, emotional awareness, emotional response
- Kidnappingkidnapping, hostage, captive, ransom note, kidnapper
emotional statethought
Mental concept or reflection
cognition · rational thought · reasoning · mental calculation · belief
emotional statebehavior
Manner of conducting oneself
action · conduct · deed · performance
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