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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An emotion which acts in contrast or opposition to another emotion..
The counteremotion of anger is serenity, that of fear relaxation.
He began to feel [...] the elation of money coming his way, the self-congratulation that followed – because the gain was all down to his inspired decisions — and then the almost equal counteremotion of sickening anxiety: a fear that there was some aspect of the trade he hadn't covered, some twist that even he had not foreseen.
An aggressor experiences a revulsion to hurting his victim, but the discomfort cannot last forever, and eventually a reassuring, energizing counteremotion resets his equilibrium to neutral.
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Counteremotion means An emotion which acts in contrast or opposition to another emotion..
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The counteremotion of anger is serenity, that of fear relaxation.
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