It’s true…we’ve expanded this bestselling resource by 55 emotions.
Below are all 130 entries. The newest are blue, and we’ve opened up a few so you can see how every entry has also been enhanced in this 2nd edition. With so many options, you should have plenty of ideas on how to show, not tell your character’s emotions.
Never struggle with show-don’t-tell again!
- Acceptance
- Admiration
- Adoration
- Agitation
- Amazement
- Amusement
- Anger
- Anguish
- Annoyance
- Anticipation
- Anxiety
- Appalled
- Apprehension
- Awe
- Betrayed
- Bitterness
- Certainty
- Concern
- Confidence
- Conflicted
- Confusion
- Connectedness
- Contempt
- Curiosity
- Defeat
- Defensiveness
- Defiant
- Denial
- Depressed
- Desire
- Despair
- Desperation
- Determination
- Devastation
- Disappointment
- Disbelief
- Discouraged
- Disgust
- Disillusionment
- Dissatisfaction
- Doubt
- Dread
- Eagerness
- Elation
- Emasculated
- Embarrassment
- Empathy
- Envy
- Euphoria (Click to view!)
- Excitement
- Fear
- Fearlessness
- Flustered
- Frustration
- Gratitude
- Grief
- Guilt
- Happiness
- Hatred
- Homesick
- Hopefulness
- Horror
- Humbled
- Humiliation
- Hurt
- Hysteria
- Impatience
- Inadequate
- Indifference
- Insecurity
- Inspired
- Intimidated
- Irritation
- Jealousy
- Loneliness
- Longing
- Love
- Lust
- Moody
- Moved
- Neglected
- Nervousness
- Nostalgia
- Obsessed
- Overwhelmed
- Panic
- Paranoia
- Peacefulness
- Pity
- Pleased
- Powerlessness
- Pride
- Rage
- Regret
- Relief
- Reluctance
- Remorse
- Resentment
- Resignation
- Sadness
- Sappy
- Satisfaction
- Schadenfreude (Click to view!)
- Scorn
- Self-Loathing
- Self-Pity
- Shame
- Shock
- Skepticism
- Smugness
- Somberness
- Stunned
- Surprise
- Suspicion
- Sympathy
- Terror
- Tormented
- Unappreciated
- Uncertainty
- Unease
- Validated
- Valued
- Vengeful
- Vindicated (Click to view!)
- Vulnerability
- Wanderlust
- Wariness
- Wistful
- Worry
- Worthlessness
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Hmmm… See those who aren’t in the US have to buy the second edition for full price. Not even a discounted price for those of us who purchased the first edition. Not cool, but so very American, nonetheless.
Hi KP,
Usually a second edition has minor modifications (if any beyond a new cover). In this case, it contains almost double the content (which on its own could be a full-sized book). We could have released a second volume but chose not to as we knew our readers would probably prefer to have everything together in one book. So no greed here, just trying to think about what our readers would find the most helpful, while valuing our own hard work that went into creating all that new content.
Wishing you all the best,
Angela
Congratulations on the updated Emotion Thesaurus! Your books are so helpful!
Thank you so much, Jackie!
We hope you enjoy all the entries included in the second edition. If you don’t find the emotion you are looking for, feel free to ask us about it, or look into the companion booklet, Emotion Amplifiers, as Amplifiers are often mistaken for emotions.
Here’s the link for Emotion Amplifiers: https://writershelpingwriters.net/emotion-amplifiers/
what about emotions related to sexuality: passionate, sexual, sexual glances or sexy body movements?
Hi Carolyn,
You mean like Desire, Love and Lust? All included in the book. If you mean attraction, this is a state of being, not an emotion, so that one is included in the Emotion Amplifiers ebooklet companion. 😉