(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
An ~ is a feeling such as happiness, love, fear, anger, or hatred, which can be caused by the situation that you are in or the people you are with.
Happiness was an ~ that Reynolds was having to relearn...
Her voice trembled with ~.
= feeling
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2.
Emotion is the part of a person’s character that consists of their feelings, as opposed to their thoughts.
...the split between reason and ~.
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