EMOTIONAL STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emotional state mean? 

• EMOTIONAL STATE (noun)
  The noun EMOTIONAL STATE has 1 sense:

1. the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

  Familiarity information: EMOTIONAL STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMOTIONAL STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

emotional state; spirit

Context example:

his spirit rose

Hypernyms ("emotional state" is a kind of...):

emotion (any strong feeling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "emotional state"):

embarrassment (the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy))

ecstasy; exaltation; rapture; raptus; transport (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

gratification; satisfaction (state of being gratified or satisfied)

felicity; happiness (state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy)

state (a state of depression or agitation)

unhappiness (state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief)

 Context examples 

It affects a person's everyday emotional state.

(Mood Disorders, NIH)

Galvanic skin response increases in certain emotional states and during hot flashes that happen with menopause.

(Galvanic skin response, NCI Dictionary)

The hypothalamus is also thought to promote both negative and positive emotional states.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)

As a social species, humans share emotional states with others.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

An unpleasant emotional state experienced upon having an inadequacy, guilt, or socially unacceptable act or trait witnessed by or revealed to others.

(Embarrassment, NCI Thesaurus)

Electrodermal response increases in certain emotional states and during hot flashes that happen with menopause.

(Electrodermal response, NCI Dictionary)

Mothers and babies tend to spend a lot of time together in a positive emotional state, in which their brains are very connected.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)

These parallel circuits drove opposing emotional states: avoidance (aversion) and approach (preference).

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)

The level of connectivity of the brain waves varies according to the mum’s emotional state: when mothers express more positive emotions their brain becomes much more strongly connected with their baby’s brain.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)