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Terms vs Counteremotion - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and counteremotion

is that terms is while counteremotion is an emotion which acts in contrast or opposition to another emotion.

terms

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    counteremotion

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An emotion which acts in contrast or opposition to another emotion.
  • *1996 , Dolf Zillmann, "Sequential Dependencies in Emotional Experience and Behavior", in Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives , p. 265:
  • *:The counteremotion of anger is serenity'', that of fear ''relaxation .
  • *2009 , (Sebastian Faulks), A Week in December :
  • *:He began to feel [...] the elation of money coming his way, the self-congratulation that followed – because the gain was all down to his inspired decisions — and then the almost equal counteremotion of sickening anxiety: a fear that there was some aspect of the trade he hadn't covered, some twist that even he had not foreseen.
  • *2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 670:
  • *:An aggressor experiences a revulsion to hurting his victim, but the discomfort cannot last forever, and eventually a reassuring, energizing counteremotion resets his equilibrium to neutral.