emotions
plural of “emotion” — any strong feeling
An inflected form of emotion · plural.
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,892 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 5,702 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- any strong feeling
emotions in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And how delightful other people’s emotions were!—much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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It was an ever-palpitating interest in her hitherto monotonous life, and a source of constantly-renewed emotions.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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I was tired and hungry, and the reaction after the emotions of the night had left me dispirited.
The Little Nugget · P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse · Chapter 1
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It was her way to express her honest emotions with emphasis which italicised, as it were, her outpourings of pleasure or appreciation.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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They were barely clear of the house before his pent-up emotions fell in an avalanche of words on the faithless Mr. Stiles.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1