emotionlike

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emotionlike (comparative more emotionlike, superlative most emotionlike)

Resembling or characteristic of emotion.
- 1999, Sally Planalp, Communicating Emotion: Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes:
  On the other hand, we have emotionlike experiences (such as slight irritation or boredom) almost all of the time.
- 2013, Mark Schaller, Jeffry A. Simpson, Douglas T. Kenrick, Evolution and Social Psychology, page 133:
  These aspects of emotion—expressive behavior, physiological process—have parallels in the emotionlike behaviors of other species. Yet human emotion is also unique, and shaped by language […]