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Drama vs Emotion - What's the difference?

drama | emotion |

As nouns the difference between drama and emotion

is that drama is a composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue while emotion is a person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.

As a proper noun Drama

is a town in Greece.

drama

English

(wikipedia drama)

Noun

  • A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
  • Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
  • Theatrical plays in general
  • A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
  • (slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * drama queen * dramatic * dramatical * dramatically * dramatics * dramatism * dramatist * dramatization * dramatize * melodrama

    Anagrams

    * ----

    emotion

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia emotion) (en noun)
  • A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
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  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
  • Derived terms

    * emotionable * emotional

    Synonyms

    * (sense, person's internal state of being) feeling, affect