EMOTION AMPLIFIER THESAURUS
Altering a character’s mood through emotional amplifiers such as hunger, illness, and pain is a great way to generate tension and add conflict. If you need to turn up the heat and complicate your character’s story, check out these entries for ways to make things more difficult for him or her.
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
FEARLESSNESS
FLUSTERED
FRUSTRATION
GRATITUDE
GRIEF
GUILT
HAPPINESS
HOMESICK
HOPEFULNESS
HORROR
HUMBLED
HURT
HYSTERIA
IMPATIENCE
INADEQUATE
INDIFFERENCE
INDIGNATION
INSECURITY
INSPIRED
INTIMIDATED
IRRITATION
JEALOUSY
LONELINESS
LONGING
LOVE
LUST
MOODY
MOVED
NEGLECTED
NERVOUSNESS
NOSTALGIA
OBSESSED
OVERWHELMED
PANIC
PARANOIA
PEACEFULNESS
PITY
PLEASED
POWERLESSNESS
RAGE
REGRET
RELIEF
RELUCTANCE
REMORSE
RESENTMENT
RESIGNATION
SADNESS
SAPPY
SATISFACTION
SCHADENFREUDE
SCORN
SELF-LOATHING
SELF-PITY
SHAME
SHOCK
SKEPTICISM
SMUGNESS
SOMBERNESS
STUNNED
SURPRISE
SUSPICION
SYMPATHY
TERROR
TORMENTED
UNAPPRECIATED
UNCERTAINTY
UNEASE
VALIDATED
VALUED
VENGEFUL
VINDICATED
VULNERABILITY
WANDERLUST
WARINESS
WISTFUL
WORRY
WORTHLESSNESS
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