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The Multilingual Emotion Wheel

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Six core emotions at the centre, English sub-emotions around them, and an outer ring drawing on forty-odd other languages—saudade, mono no aware, and a couple of hundred more—each positioned near the feeling it most closely neighbours. The premise that naming a feeling more precisely expands what you’re capable of feeling is a nice one, even if unfalsifiable.