Is there a difference between emotions and feelings?
Yes, there is a subtle difference. “Feeling” and “emotion” refer to pleasurable or painful sensations experienced when one is stirred to sympathy, anger, fear, love, grief, or such. “Feeling” is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations. It may be used to suggest the mere existence of a response but imply nothing about the nature or intensity of it (to be guided by feelings rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness). “Emotion” carries a strong implication of agitation or excitement and can be applied to any intensified feeling (disturbed by her emotions; the powerful emotions of adolesence).
