What's the difference between emotion and horror?

Emotion


Definition:

  • (n.) A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (2) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (3) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
  • (4) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
  • (5) We examined 10 life areas clustered around the general categories of "substance use," "social functioning," and "emotional and interpersonal functioning."
  • (6) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
  • (7) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (8) Following the hypothesis that infertile patients may present emotional conflicts with regard to the wish of having a child, psychodynamic interviews were carried out with 116 infertile couples concomitantly with their first consultation at the Sterility Department.
  • (9) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (10) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
  • (11) I think of tattoos as art, but also, every time I look at mine, I relive the emotions I felt when I had them.
  • (12) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
  • (13) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
  • (14) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (15) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
  • (16) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (17) Facial expression, EEG, and self-report of subjective emotional experience were recorded while subjects individually watched both pleasant and unpleasant films.
  • (18) Results offer support for the self-attribution theory of emotions.
  • (19) Thirty-three emotional reactions occurred in 26 patients, 44% of the reactions following right hemisphere injection and 32% after injection of the left hemisphere.
  • (20) Moreover, respondents indicating initially relatively high levels of emotional eating who reported a reduction in that level were found to lose significantly (p less than 0.01) more reported weight and to be significantly (p less than 0.05) more successful at approaching target weight over the period of the study than respondents who continued to report high levels of emotional eating.

Horror


Definition:

  • (n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
  • (n.) A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
  • (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
  • (n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (2) As an organisation rife with white privilege, Peta has the luxury of not having to consider the horror that such imagery would evoke.
  • (3) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
  • (4) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
  • (5) What to do in the face of such horrors and dangers?
  • (6) It wasn't the horror of the incident that interested King, but the unanswered questions.
  • (7) In the wake of the horrors of the second world war it was the proudest gift to a land fit for heroes, delivered at a time when the national debt made our current crisis look like an embarrassing bar tab.
  • (8) David Baines, a campaigner for Labour in the UK, remarked on the “horror” in Aleppo.
  • (9) We have diligently done this, with one exception: today's star-in-waiting, the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with whom we have been in email contact but were unable to speak to in time for this column.
  • (10) No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades.
  • (11) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
  • (12) The road to gaining nearly 1.2 billion monthly active users has seen the mums, dads, aunts and uncles of the generation who pioneered Facebook join it too, spamming their walls with inspirational quotes and images of cute animals, and (shock, horror) commenting on their kids' photos.
  • (13) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
  • (14) In an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, Fahma – alongside other members of the youth charity Integrate Bristol – met with the education secretary, Michael Gove, to ask him to write to every school in the country about the horrors of FGM.
  • (15) Formative experiences included watching Hammer horror films aged six as his babysitter passed him cigarettes, and of course Top Of The Pops: "I remember being seven and watching Ian Dury & The Blockheads and Lena Lovich.
  • (16) And the horrors encountered inside the school were so great that when police sent in paramedics, they tried to select ones capable of handling what they were about to witness.
  • (17) Even the nightmares my psyche produces in response to the horrors of today can’t come close to what these people have lived.
  • (18) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.
  • (19) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
  • (20) "When you see that image in your mind of bodies being burned it does bring back memories of the end of world war two, and the horror and the shame and the shock," Kirby said.