a field guide to feeling

All emotions

402 emotions across 17 families. Click any name for the full entry.

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Abandonment Social Abashment Self-conscious Abhorrence Disgust Absolution Positive Absurdity Existential Acceptance Trust Acrimony Anger Admiration Trust Adoration Love Adulation Love Affection Love Agape Love Aggressiveness Anger Agitation Negative Alienation Social Aloofness Mixed Amazement Surprise Ambition Positive Ambivalence Cognitive Amusement Joy Anger Anger Angst Existential Anguish Sadness Annoyance Anger Anticipation Anticipation Anticipatory grief Sadness Anxiety Fear Apathy Cognitive Apprehension Fear Ardour Love Astonishment Surprise Aversion Disgust Awe Existential Awkwardness Social Befuddlement Cognitive Begrudgement Anger Belonging Love Bemusement Surprise Benevolence Positive Besottedness Love Betrayal Social Bewilderment Surprise Bitterness Anger Bittersweet recall Mixed Bliss Joy Boredom Disgust Callousness Negative Captivation Surprise Catharsis Mixed Caution Mixed Certainty Cognitive Chagrin Self-conscious Cheerfulness Joy Cherishing Love Claircognisance Cognitive Clarity Cognitive Claustrophobia Fear Claustrophobic dread Fear Comfort Positive Commuovere Untranslatable Compassion Social Compersion Social Complacency Negative Composure Positive Concentration Cognitive Confidence Trust Confirmation bias Cognitive Confusion Cognitive Consternation Surprise Contempt Disgust Contentment Joy Contrition Self-conscious Courage Positive Coyness Mixed Craic Untranslatable Cravings Negative Cruelty Negative Curiosity Anticipation Cynicism Negative Defeat Negative Defeatism Negative Defiance Positive Dejection Sadness Delicacy Love Delight Joy Dependability Trust Desenrascanço Untranslatable Desire Love Desolation Sadness Despair Sadness Desperation Negative Detachment Cognitive Determination Positive Devotedness Love Devotion Trust Diffidence Self-conscious Disappointment Sadness Disbelief Surprise Discomfort Negative Disdain Disgust Disenchantment Negative Disgrace Self-conscious Disgust Disgust Disillusionment Negative Dissonance Cognitive Distaste Disgust Distraction Surprise Dolce far niente Untranslatable Dominance Mixed Doubt Cognitive Dread Fear Duende Untranslatable Eagerness Anticipation Ecstasy Joy Elan Positive Elation Joy Elegy Sadness Embarrassment Self-conscious Empathy Social Empowerment Positive Emptiness Sadness Enchainment Negative Enchantment Joy Ennui Existential Entitlement Mixed Envy Self-conscious Epiphany Cognitive Equanimity Existential Equivocation Cognitive Euphoria Joy Exasperation Anger Excitement Anticipation Exhaustion Negative Exhilaration Joy Exuberance Joy Exultation Joy Faith Trust Fear Fear Fernweh Untranslatable Fervidity Positive Fervor Positive Festivity Joy Fickleness Negative Fierceness Positive Fika Untranslatable Fixation Cognitive Flatness Negative Flow Cognitive Fluster Negative Fondness Love Forbearance Positive Foreboding Fear Forelsket Untranslatable Forgiveness Social Forlornness Sadness Freedom Positive Fremdschämen Untranslatable Frustration Anger Fury Anger Gaiety Joy Generosity Positive Gentleness Love Gezelligheid Untranslatable Giddiness Joy Gigil Untranslatable Glee Joy Gloating Negative Gloom Sadness Glückschmerz Untranslatable Grace Positive Gratitude Social Greed Negative Grief Sadness Grudge Anger Grudging respect Mixed Guilt Self-conscious Gullibility Cognitive Hallowed feeling Existential Happiness Joy Hatred Negative Heartbreak Sadness Heaviness Sadness Heimweh Sadness Helplessness Negative Hiraeth Untranslatable Homesickness Sadness Honour Positive Hope Anticipation Hopefulness Positive Hopelessness Negative Horror Fear Hostility Anger Hubris Self-conscious Humiliation Self-conscious Humility Positive Hygge Untranslatable Hysteria Negative Idealism Positive Ikigai Untranslatable Impatience Anticipation Impulsiveness Mixed Inadequacy Self-conscious Incredulity Surprise Indifference Cognitive Indignation Anger Ineffability Existential Inevitability Existential Infatuation Love Injustice Negative Insight Cognitive Inspiration Positive Interest Anticipation Intimacy Love Irritability Anger Irritation Anger Jadedness Negative Jealousy Self-conscious Joie de vivre Untranslatable Joy Joy Jubilation Joy Kilig Untranslatable Kindness Positive Kinship Social Koi no yokan Untranslatable L'esprit de l'escalier Untranslatable Languor Mixed Laziness Negative Lethargy Negative Liberation Positive Litost Untranslatable Loathing Disgust Loneliness Sadness Longing Anticipation Love Love Loyalty Trust Magnanimity Positive Malice Negative Mamihlapinatapai Untranslatable Martyrdom Self-conscious Meekness Negative Melancholia Sadness Melancholy Sadness Meraki Untranslatable Mirth Joy Mirthlessness Sadness Mischief Joy Mono no aware Untranslatable Moral disgust Negative Moral elevation Positive Moral fervour Social Motivation Positive Mudita Untranslatable Nausea (emotional) Negative Nervousness Fear Nihilism Existential Nonchalance Mixed Nosiness Mixed Nostalgia Mixed Numbness Negative Obedience Mixed Obsequiousness Social Obstinacy Mixed Optimism Positive Outrage Anger Overwhelm Cognitive Panic Fear Paranoia Fear Passion Love Patience Positive Peacefulness Positive Pensiveness Sadness Perturbation Fear Pessimism Negative Pettiness Negative Petulance Negative Pining Love Piquancy Mixed Pity Sadness Playfulness Joy Pleasure Joy Poignancy Mixed Poise Positive Powerlessness Negative Pride Self-conscious Protectiveness Social Querencia Untranslatable Rage Anger Rapacity Negative Rapture Joy Realisation Cognitive Reassurance Trust Rebelliousness Mixed Recklessness Negative Regret Sadness Rejection Social Relief Joy Relish Joy Remorse Negative Repugnance Disgust Resentment Anger Resignation Negative Respect Trust Restfulness Positive Restiveness Negative Restlessness Negative Reticence Fear Retrouvailles Untranslatable Reverence Trust Reverent fear Existential Reverie Mixed Revulsion Disgust Righteousness Social Rootedness Positive Rue Sadness Sacredness Existential Sadness Sadness Satiety Positive Satisfaction Joy Saudade Untranslatable Savoring Joy Scepticism Cognitive Schadenfreude Social Scorn Disgust Security Positive Self-consciousness Self-conscious Self-doubt Self-conscious Sentimentality Mixed Serenity Joy Shame Self-conscious Sheepishness Self-conscious Shock Surprise Silliness Joy Smugness Negative Sobremesa Untranslatable Solace Positive Solemnity Existential Solicitous love Love Solicitude Social Solidarity Social Solitude Mixed Sorrow Sadness Spaciousness Positive Spite Anger Spleen Untranslatable Startle Surprise Steadfastness Positive Stoicism Existential Stubbornness Mixed Stuporousness Negative Sublime Existential Submission Negative Surprise Surprise Suspense Anticipation Suspicion Negative Sympathy Social Tarab Untranslatable Tendentiousness Negative Tenderness Love Terror Fear Tetchiness Anger Thrill Joy Timidity Fear Torpor Negative Torschlusspanik Untranslatable Toska Untranslatable Transcendence Existential Trepidation Fear Trepidity Fear Triumph Joy Truculence Anger Trust Trust Tsundoku Untranslatable Turmoil Negative Ubuntu Untranslatable Unease Fear Validation Social Vanity Self-conscious Veneration Existential Vengefulness Anger Vigilance Anticipation Vindictive intent Negative Vindictiveness Anger Vitality Positive Voorpret Untranslatable Vulnerability Self-conscious Wabi-sabi Untranslatable Waldeinsamkeit Untranslatable Wanderlust Positive Warmth Joy Weariness Negative Weltschmerz Untranslatable Whimsy Joy Wistfulness Sadness Woe Sadness Wonder Surprise Wondrous Joy Worry Fear Wrath Anger Ya'aburnee Untranslatable Yearning Mixed Zeal Positive Zest Positive