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
ADORATION
AGITATION
AMAZEMENT
AMUSEMENT
ANGER
ANGUISH
ANNOYANCE
ANTICIPATION
ANXIETY
BITTERNESS
CONCERN
CONFIDENCE
CONFLICTED
CONFUSION
CONTEMPT
CURIOSITY
DEFEAT
DEFENSIVENESS
DENIAL
DEPRESSION
DESIRE
DESPAIR
DESPERATION
DETERMINATION
DEVASTATION
DISAPPOINTMENT
DISBELIEF
DISGUST
DISILLUSIONMENT
DOUBT
DREAD
EAGERNESS
ELATION
EMBARRASSMENT
ENVY
FRUSTRATION
GRATITUDE
GRIEF
GUILT
HAPPINESS
HOPEFULNESS
HURT
IMPATIENCE
INDIFFERENCE
INDIGNATION
INSECURITY
IRRITATION
JEALOUSY
LONELINESS
LOVE
LUST
NERVOUSNESS
NOSTALGIA
OVERWHELMED
PANIC
PARANOIA
PEACEFULNESS
POWERLESSNESS
RAGE
REGRET
RELIEF
RELUCTANCE
REMORSE
RESENTMENT
RESIGNATION
SADNESS
SATISFACTION
SCORN
SELF-LOATHING
SHAME
SHOCK
SKEPTICISM
SMUGNESS
SOMBERNESS
SURPRISE
SUSPICION
SYMPATHY
TERROR
UNCERTAINTY
UNEASE
VALUED
VENGEFULNESS
VULNERABILITY
WARINESS
WORRY
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