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Finding a word for a feeling
I'm trying to find a word for the feeling of holding onto anger or sadness because it seems the proper thing to do.
Examples may include having a friend that was wronged, and though your life is good, ...
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What words describe the feeling of proving someone wrong?
I am looking for words to describe the feeling of when you prove someone wrong. For example Person A says person B can't do something. Out of spite Person B does said thing. Person B then feels____.
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Is there a noun for the emotion of feeling numbed by a sudden, massive change in one's life? [duplicate]
I have a character whose daily work relies immensely on her agility and mobility, and whose favourite passtime is running around and climbing the local terrain.
I'll be writing a story arc very soon ...
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What is the word for wanting something bad to happen to make life exciting?
In a book I am writing, a girl wants to have PTSD or abuse so her life is exciting. Like, she wants to live in a book or TV show trope. What is the word for wanting a little kink in a boring life to ...
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What's the word for the emotion when someone's suspicion that another person made a bad decision is confirmed?
I'm a native English speaker, but I'm drawing a blank on how to describe this complicated exchange of situational emotions in words. Maybe someone can help. I'll just illustrate the situation with a ...
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Is there an emotion that encapsulates a mixture of disbelief, anger, and hatred?
For all the words I know, I can't seem to find the right word for this strange emotion. Some words I have tried come up short in one way or another. Confusion lacks the underlying hatred, annoyance ...
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What word would an American child use instead of "disgruntled"? [closed]
If you have children, could you please show this image to them and ask them what word they'd use to describe the emotion the person in the image below?
Young children don't really use the word '...
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What's the word for the sound, or the act of making the sound, we sometimes make when offended?
If someone offends someone, their immediate reaction is sometimes letting out a kind of unvoiced aspirated glottal plosive. I am not sure if that's the right term, but it feels plosive, aspirated and ...
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What is a word for someone who sees themself as ‘unlovable’?
I’m doing some character work and I was wondering if anyone could find a word that means ‘someone who feels unlovable’ or ‘believes themself unworthy of having their love returned’.
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What is a word for "the feeling of wanting something good for others"?
I'm looking for a word that is the inverse of envy, in which a person wants others to have something good that they don't have.
The definition of envy from Lexico:
A feeling of discontented or ...
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The quality of being apologetic
What is the word/noun for 'the quality of being apologetic'?
Lexico definition of apologetic:
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Expressing or showing regretful acknowledgement of an offence or failure.
‘she was very ...
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What is the word to describe the sudden emotional shift from being motivated towards sorrow? [closed]
Here is the moment from a story:
For the first time after several years, he laced up his shoes and stepped outside to start his run. However, the run turned to a walk as his thinking turned inward ...
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Is there a word or phrase for the subversion of a pleasant thing becoming a negative thing? [closed]
When something associated with positive emotions becomes associated with its opposite negative emotions, it often appears to embody these emotions more strongly than something that didn't have the ...
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Looking for a word to describe a very specific feeling of surprise
Recently, I had a very specific event take place (at 2AM, no less), at which time I was listening to a song (I Can't Help Myself by Four Tops) I'd just discovered. By doing this, in my head I linked ...
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Word for a persistent fear of something actually leading to it being true [duplicate]
I vaguely recall there being a term for this in psychology. You fear of something becoming true, and you persistently are afraid ... and this very activity of feeling somehow causes that something to ...
