mindmap root((情感)) feeling denotes any response marked by such qualities as pleasure, pain, attraction, or repulsion and may imply nothing about the nature or intensity of the response: whatever ~s I had for him were gone. emotion carries a strong implication of excitement or agitation and, like feeling, encompasses both positive and negative responses: a play in which the ~s are real. affection applies to feelings that are also inclinations or likings: memoirs filled with ~ and understanding. sentiment implies refined, perhaps romantic, and sometimes artificial or affected emotion with an intellectual component: her feminist ~s are well known. passion suggests a powerful or controlling emotion marked by urgency of desire: revenge became his ruling ~.