Emotions - various bits that are parts of who we each are

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About Emotions - various bits that are parts of who we each are

This is a place to share photos about human emotions/feelings and also animal emotions/feelings.
I have doggy children and believe they express and live with emotions just as we do...
I saw this bit at the end of a bit written by Marc Bekoff
click here to read this awesome article

Emotions are the gifts of our ancestors. We have them and so do other animals. We must never forget this.

So Please include animals and all living beings in sharing expressions of various of emotions/feelings.

From American Heritage Dictionary:

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emotion

NOUN:

1. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.
2. A state of mental agitation or disturbance: spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion. See Synonyms at feeling.
3. The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility: "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect" (Isaac Bashevis Singer).

ETYMOLOGY:
French motion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movre, to move; see meu- in Indo-European roots

emotion

noun

A complex and usually strong subjective response, such as love or hate: affection, affectivity, feeling, sentiment. See feelings

FEELINGS

noun
anger
annoyance (3)
anxiety
apathy
balance
emotion
enthusiasm
fury
gloom
glow
heart
heat
mood
morale
passion (3)
resentment
sentimentality
temper (3)
theatrics
wonder

adjective
angry
anxious
apathetic
awkward
emotional (2)
fervid (2)
furious
insensitive
moody
neutral
passionate
pitying
sentimental
spirited
testy
unsympathetic

verb
anger (2)
annoy (2)
complain
confuse
emotionalize
feel
greet
rave
sentimentalize
wonder

See also
action
affect
attitude
awareness
be
calm
concern
excite
happy
hope
kind
pain
pity
religion
strong
surprise
tighten
tired "