emotional state

1. 1.

   the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

   “his emotional state depended on her opinion”

   “he was in good spirits”

   “his spirit rose”

   Synonymsspirit

   Broaderemotion

   Narrowerembarrassmentecstasygratificationhappinessstateunhappiness

Questions about emotional state

What does emotional state mean?

emotional state means "the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)".

What is another word for emotional state?

Close synonyms include spirit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is emotional state a common word?

emotional state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.