Definition of Emotional state

1. Noun. The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection). "His spirit rose"

Exact synonyms: Spirit
Generic synonyms: Emotion
Specialized synonyms: Embarrassment, Ecstasy, Exaltation, Rapture, Raptus, Transport, Gratification, Satisfaction, Felicity, Happiness, State, Unhappiness
Derivative terms: Spirit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotional State

emotional amnesia
emotional arousal
emotional attitudes
emotional blackmail
emotional build
emotional deprivation
emotional disease
emotional disorder
emotional disturbance
emotional intelligence
emotional leukocytosis
emotional overlay
emotional person
emotional pivot
emotional pivots
emotional state (current term)
emotional structure
emotional structures
emotionalisation
emotionalisations
emotionalise
emotionalised
emotionalises
emotionalising
emotionalism
emotionalisms
emotionalist
emotionalistic
emotionalists
emotionalities

Literary usage of Emotional state

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychology: A Study of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth (1921)
"THE emotional state AS A PREPARATORY REACTION An emotion is often spoken of as a disturbance of the normal quiet state, and as if it represented a breakdown ..."

2. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1899)
"Is it possible, I have asked myself, to render the supervention of this secondary process, this revival of the emotional state, more constant and more vivid ..."

3. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"The choice of an adverb for the emotional state instead of the related adjective is also attested with other adverbs: it [a letter] had effect enough over ..."

4. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"must be ascribed to some underlying emotional state, the experimenter nevertheless attempts to classify emotions despite this limitation. ..."

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