Dictionary of Emotions

Words For Feelings, Moods, and Emotions

:-)-: Dictionary of Emotions: Words For Feelings, Moods, and Emotions is an extensive collection of concisely defined feeling focused words that can help anyone seeking to enhance their emotional intelligence with a vocabulary of emotional awareness and expressions.

THE BOOK

From the Introduction -

Emotions are subjective. Emotions help define and communicate our internal and external condition and experience. Dictionary of Emotions: Words for Feelings, Moods, and Emotions is a collection of words to aid in recognizing, defining, and explaining one’s own emotional experience.

The project started in 1989 when I was working full time as a professional actor. My passion for acting was anchored in exploring and experiencing emotion and the human condition. I found myself searching for tools to aid in improving both my characters’ emotional development and my own emotional intelligence. I desired the ability to assign emotions and the intensity of those emotions to each circumstance in each scene of the script. This, I believed, would help me better understand the overall emotional experience of the character and the emotional arc of the story. I realized that a dictionary of emotions would be of value for all of us who want to expand our emotional vocabulary. With that in mind, I created Dictionary of Emotions: Words for Feelings, Moods, and Emotions.

This work serves as a tool for awareness and expression. I feel that it can be used to help us identify and understand many of our linguistic options for describing various states of our own emotional experience.

- Patrick Michael Ryan

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THE AUTHOR

Patrick Michael Ryan has been curious about emotion and personal expression for most of his life and has applied his knowledge in various roles throughout his career as an actor, Managing Director, and entrepreneur.