Dictionary of Feelings

Hey everyone! How’s it going? This is Stalilingus on the line! I want to share something really cool with you—a dictionary of feelings. This is, hands down, the best addition to articles about emotions and calibrations! By the way, here they are if you haven’t read them yet:

• Calibrations: How to Communicate with People More Effectively?
• Understanding Emotions
• Manipulating Emotions: How Not to Do What You Don’t Want To?

We present to you a dictionary of feelings, where emotions are classified. This dictionary will be useful for anyone interested in their inner world, soul, and self-discovery.

Let’s clarify right away: this dictionary is not a standard or dogma, since we are all different and think, feel, and experience things in our own ways. The main purpose of this dictionary is to organize our sensations related to various emotions, to help people understand themselves and their relationship with the world around them.

The Wheel of Emotions

1. Excitement – The feelings a person experiences when involved in something risky, a game, or a situation. In this state, people often lose touch with reality, which can lead to negative consequences.
2. Apathy – Indifference to everyone and everything, usually associated with periods of depression, fatigue, or illness.
3. Antipathy – A strong, negative attitude toward another person: contempt, skepticism, hatred, anger, often caused by their negative actions.
4. Anxiety – A disturbance of inner balance, worry with or without reason, expressed as increased agitation.
5. Rage – Furious, uncontrollable behavior in certain situations. This is more of a vivid metaphor than a common state; many people never experience this emotion in their lifetime.
6. Powerlessness – The inability to do something. This state creates emotions like sadness, anger, shame, and anxiety. A person feels weak, insignificant, and unable to cope.
7. Helplessness – The feeling that no one will help you and you can’t handle things alone. Often confused with powerlessness, but they are different: powerlessness comes from within, while helplessness is often triggered by external factors.
8. Hopelessness – A combination of powerlessness, helplessness, and hopelessness, describing the experience of an unbearably difficult, inescapable situation that a person cannot and does not want to accept.
9. Meaninglessness – The feeling of emptiness and/or loss of something important in life (or what we consider important).
10. Abandonment – The feeling of being unwanted, expressed through experiences of rejection and loneliness.
11. Defenselessness (Vulnerability) – The sense of being fatally unprotected against external factors, such as war, terrorism, political instability, etc.
12. Gratitude – A response to the actions of others that brought you pleasure or joy.
13. Arousal – A total or localized set of bodily sensations: trembling, tension, warmth, internal itching, etc. Arousal can be triggered by sex, fast driving, gambling, and other active experiences.
14. Nervousness – Very similar to arousal, but unlike arousal, nervousness is caused by external factors (e.g., worrying about a child, parents, losing a job, etc.).
15. Omnipotence – The experience of a sudden emotional high, when it seems you can do anything and more! Usually, people in this state have a distorted perception of reality.
16. Indignation – The experience of a situation as:
    • Created by others;
    • Unpleasant, impossible, or unacceptable;
    • Something that someone else should change.
17. Admiration – A strong emotion of pleasure toward something or someone.
18. Delight – Very similar to admiration, expressed as a bright surge of positive emotions toward a person, object, or event.
19. Infatuation – An intense need to be with another person, caused by admiration, sometimes idealization, and always a desire for mutual feelings.
20. Lust – A strong desire to obtain something, usually out of reach.
21. Guilt – The realization that your actions have caused harm, grief, or trouble to someone. This is accompanied by regret, remorse, empathy, and usually a desire to make amends.
22. Anger – A very strong feeling of rage and indignation, triggered by outrage or rejection of something or someone.
23. Pride – Admiration for oneself, one’s actions, and achievements, based on the joy of accomplishing something well.
24. Grief – Deep sorrow or mourning caused by negative life events. Grief is accompanied by sadness, guilt, hurt, longing, and can lead to profound emotional pain.
25. Sadness – The experience of accepting something undesirable that has happened. The person has the strength to accept it, understands nothing can be changed, and feels sorrow.
26. Annoyance – Anger or irritation at something that has happened, expressed as bitterness and rejection of a situation that is impossible (or extremely difficult) to change or prevent.
27. Trust – Forming realistic expectations and understanding one’s own limitations and abilities. A complex and ambiguous concept, with varying degrees of importance for each person.
28. Pity – A poignant feeling of pain, compassion, and empathy that one person feels for another, as well as for animals, birds, even flowers, objects, or events.
29. Envy – The experience of a negative situation where someone else has something or someone you want but cannot have for various reasons.
30. Anger (Irritation) – A negative reaction to obstacles in satisfying one’s needs, with the source of activity coming from within the person.
31. Fright – A surge of emotions triggered by fear, i.e., a reaction to the sudden appearance of a threatening object nearby.
32. Interest – A mild sense of curiosity about something or someone.
33. Curiosity – The need for novelty, the desire to explore both the physical and spiritual world. Often associated with vices in literature, but as a reflex that helps us navigate life, curiosity is very useful.
34. Laziness – The feeling of internal resistance when trying to make yourself do something. Can manifest as boredom, meaninglessness, lack of interest, or desire.
35. Love – A stable feeling of joy and peace from the existence of the object of love. It doesn’t matter in what form (e.g., love for God). Note: don’t confuse love with fleeting sympathy or sexual attraction.
36. Hatred – Total outrage and anger directed not at a specific action, but at the person (or people) themselves.
37. Indignation (Resentment) – A very strong degree of outrage. The essence is an aggressive attempt to influence another person, to force them to change their behavior or correct an action.
38. Hope – Patiently waiting for the environment (state, people, boss, spouse, etc.) to take actions that will result in getting what you want.
39. Tenderness – Joy, affection, warmth, and heartfelt emotion from knowing that someone in the world matters to you.
40. Awkwardness – The feeling that your actions are inappropriate for the situation, not meeting your own or others’ expectations, or a sense of not being able to control your movements optimally.
41. Impatience – The experience of strong excitement due to the inability to immediately satisfy a need.
42. Bewilderment – The highest degree of surprise. In its extreme form, total bewilderment can indicate a severe disturbance of reality perception, seen in certain mental disorders.
43. Resentment – The experience of outrage, powerlessness, and sadness triggered by someone else’s negative actions.
44. Despair – A combination of feelings like powerlessness, helplessness, and hopelessness, expressed as a sense of being trapped.
45. Disappointment – The experience of unfulfilled hopes.
46. Emptiness – The feeling that after completing something important and difficult, you are left completely drained. As people say: “I can’t lift my arms.” This is temporary and usually passes after a good rest.
47. Rejection – The experience of total rejection (non-acceptance) by family or a reference group, or rejection if certain behaviors continue.
48. Loneliness – Often associated with rejection. A very individual feeling: some people welcome loneliness, others cannot stand being alone for long.
49. Contempt – The feeling of superiority over another person, seeing them as beneath you, and feeling that interacting with them is unworthy or humiliating.
50. Sorrow – A persistent state of sadness, often used to describe a mild degree of grief or suppressed grief.
51. Joy – A vivid feeling of excitement from an overwhelmingly satisfying experience, when you get much more than you expected.
52. Irritation – A mild feeling of anger that hasn’t reached its peak.
53. Jealousy – A complex situation involving three people and many possible combinations.
54. Confusion – The feeling that arises when faced with two or more unexpected choices of objects or behaviors.
55. Fear – A special internal state caused by the awareness of impending danger.
56. Anxiety – An indefinite, unclear fear, without obvious reasons for fear or panic.
57. Terror – The highest degree of fear, often causing a person to freeze in place.
58. Humiliation – The experience of being lowered in social status or denied confirmation of a status one aspires to.
59. Fury – The highest degree of anger. In a state of fury, a person acts spontaneously, destructively, and rarely makes rational decisions.

From the editors who published this dictionary: For a more detailed look at the main characteristics of human emotions, check out “Dictionary of Feelings” by A. V. Smirnov (2011).

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