Every once in a while, one feels that he lacks a word for the accurate description of one's feelings. It might be an unbridgeable gap between the cognitive and the emotional, and yet, one has to make an effort...
What is a feeling ? A feeling is a generalizing term for a subjective, aware, experience which can be characterized by psychphysiological & biological expressions and mental states.
Feelings such as Love, Hate, Courage, Fear, Enjoyment, Sadness, Disgust, Happiness and others can be described both by physical terms and psychological terms.
For example:
What is a feeling ? A feeling is a generalizing term for a subjective, aware, experience which can be characterized by psychphysiological & biological expressions and mental states.
Feelings such as Love, Hate, Courage, Fear, Enjoyment, Sadness, Disgust, Happiness and others can be described both by physical terms and psychological terms.
For example:
A feeling can be described by a change in the beating rate of the heart, in the level of sweating, or in the extraction of facial muscles and the formation of facial expressions.
A feeling can also be described by the changes it brings in a person's self-assesment of one's condition, and his pseudo-rational choices of action, upon that self assesment.
Different Researchers have proposed different lists of emotions and feelings.
Still wish for a more scientific disucssion ?
The Article "Emotion" in Wikipedia might be a good place to start the search for the fulfillment of that wish.
But let us move on to the nexus of this post: the beginning of a formation of new words, describing feelings which lack adequate verbal names.
let the first be Exinorance - The geeky excitement one feels when discovering an exciting new field of ignorance one possessed and a source of knowledge to start filling this hole in one's education.
Example -
I've experience an orgasmic sense of exinorance as I viewed the following video -
I've experience an orgasmic sense of exinorance as I viewed the following video -
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