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Emotion vs Emotionlike - What's the difference?

emotion | emotionlike |

As a noun emotion

is emotion.

As an adjective emotionlike is

resembling or characteristic of emotion.

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.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , 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

    emotionlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of emotion.
  • * 1999 , Sally Planalp, Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes
    • On the other hand, we have emotionlike experiences (such as slight irritation or boredom) almost all of the time.
  • * 2013 , Mark Schaller, ?Jeffry A. Simpson, ?Douglas T. Kenrick, Evolution and Social Psychology (page 133)
    • These aspects of emotion—expressive behavior, physiological process—have parallels in the emotionlike behaviors of other species. Yet human emotion is also unique, and shaped by language