Emotion vs Zeal - What's the difference?
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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= A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
The fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
* Dryden
* Bible, Romans x. 2
(obsolete) A zealot.
As nouns the difference between emotion and zeal
is that 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 while zeal is the fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.emotion
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(wikipedia emotion) (en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* emotionable * emotionalzeal
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- Zeal , the blind conductor of the will.
- I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
- (Ben Jonson)