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Feeling: Oxford Dictionary

Emotions are defined as strong feelings that arise from one's circumstances, moods, or relationships. Emotions can be occurrences like panic or dispositions like hostility, and can vary in intensity and duration. They involve coordinated verbal, physiological, behavioral, and neural responses. Emotions are often categorized and some have direct opposites, while all functional emotions serve an evolutionary purpose.

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Feeling: Oxford Dictionary

Emotions are defined as strong feelings that arise from one's circumstances, moods, or relationships. Emotions can be occurrences like panic or dispositions like hostility, and can vary in intensity and duration. They involve coordinated verbal, physiological, behavioral, and neural responses. Emotions are often categorized and some have direct opposites, while all functional emotions serve an evolutionary purpose.

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The Oxford Dictionary definition of emotion is "A strong feeling deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with

others." [20] Emotions are responses to significant


internal and external events. [21]

Emotions can be occurrences (e.g., panic) or dispositions (e.g., hostility), and short-lived (e.g., anger) or long-lived (e.g., grief). [22] Psychotherapist Michael C. Graham describes
all emotions as existing on a continuum of intensity. [23] Thus fear might range from mild concern to terror or shame might range from simple embarrassment to toxic shame.
[24]
Emotions have been described as consisting of a coordinated set of responses, which may include verbal, physiological, behavioral, and neural mechanisms. [25]

Emotions have been categorized, with some relationships existing between emotions and some direct opposites existing. Graham differentiates emotions as functional or
dysfunctional and argues all functional emotions have benefits. [26]

In some uses of the word, emotions are intense feelings that are directed at someone or something. [27] On the other hand, emotion can be used to refer to states that are mild (as
in annoyed or content) and to states that are not directed at anything (as in anxiety and depression). One line of research looks at the meaning of the word emotion in everyday
language and finds that this usage is rather different from that in academic discourse. [28]

In practical terms, Joseph LeDoux has defined emotions as the result of a cognitive and conscious process which occurs in response to a body system response to a trigger. [29]

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