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| Primary emotion | Secondary emotions | Tertiary emotions |
|---|---|---|
| Sadness | Disappointment | Disappointment • Dismay • Displeasure |
| Neglect | Alienation • Defeat • Dejection • Embarrassment • Homesickness • Humiliation • Insult • Insecurity • Isolation • Loneliness • Neglect • Rejection | |
| Sadness | Depression • Despair • Grief • Gloom • Glumness • Hopelessness • Melancholy • Misery • Sadness • Sorrow • Unhappiness • Woe | |
| Shame | Guilt • Shame • Regret • Remorse | |
| Suffering | Agony • Anguish • Hurt • Suffering | |
| Sympathy | Pity, Sympathy | |
Other primary emotions: Anger • Fear • Joy • Love • Surprise | ||
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Sadness
Sadness is an emotion characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, helplessness, sorrow, and rage. When sad, people often become outspoken, less energetic, and emotional.
Sadness can be viewed as a temporary lowering of mood, whereas depression is characterized by a persistent and intense lowered mood, as well as disruption to one's ability to function in day to day matters.
Depression
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well-being. It may include feelings of sadness, anxiety, emptiness, hopelessness, worthlessness, guilt, irritability, or restlessness. Depressed people may lose interest in activities that once were pleasurable, experience difficulty concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions, and may contemplate or attempt suicide. Insomnia, excessive sleeping, fatigue, loss of energy, or aches, pains or digestive problems that are resistant to treatment may be present
Despair
Despair is the loss of hope.
Hope is the belief in a positive outcome related to events and circumstances in one's life.
Hope is distinct from positive thinking, which refers to a therapeutic or systematic process used in psychology for reversing pessimism. The term false hope refers to a hope based entirely around a fantasy or an extremely unlikely outcome
Grief
Grief is a multi-faceted response to loss, particularly to the loss of someone or something to which a bond was formed. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. While the terms are often used interchangeably, bereavement often refers to the state of loss, and grief to the reaction to loss.
Gloom
Gloom or melancholia - from Greek μελαγχολία - melancholia, "sadness", lit. "black bile"), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, (see Saturn), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.
Glumness
The state of being glum (sad or despondent)
Hopelessness
(See Despair, above)
Melancholy
(see Gloom, above)
Misery
Misery is a feeling of great unhappiness, suffering and/or pain.
Sadness
Sadness is an emotion characterized by feelings of disadvantage, loss, helplessness, sorrow, and rage. When sad, people often become outspoken, less energetic, and emotional. Crying is an indication of sadness.
Sadness can be viewed as a temporary lowering of mood, whereas depression is characterized by a persistent and intense lowered mood, as well as disruption to one's ability to function in day to day matters.
Sorrow
The emotion of sorrow is classified as a primary emotion. It has two impulses: to cling to the object of sorrow, and to repair the injuries done to that object that caused the emotion in the first place. Thus the primary emotion of sorrow is the basis for the emotion of pity, which Shand describes as a fusion of sorrow and joy: sorrow at the injury done to the object of pity, and joy as an "element of sweetness" tinging that sorrow
Unhappiness
Unhappiness is the lack of hapiness.
Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.[1] A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.
Woe
Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical or mental. It may come in all degrees of intensity, from mild to intolerable. Factors of duration and frequency of occurrence usually compound that of intensity. In addition to such factors, people's attitudes toward suffering may take into account how much it is, in their opinion, avoidable or unavoidable, useful or useless, deserved or undeserved.
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