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Exploring Emotional Granularity and Unique Emotion Words
In this chapter, they delve into the concept of emotional granularity and discuss their favorite emotion words from different languages, including a Japanese word for post-bad-haircut unpleasantness, a word for the feeling when seeing a cute baby, a German word for emotional overeating, and a Finnish word for the satisfaction of falling on a soft cushion. They also introduce their own invented emotion word, 'emotional flu,' to capture the sensation of feeling physically imbalanced.