Emotional response
Heart and emotional response are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Heart" instead a noun phrase "Emotional response".
Heart
Heart noun - The capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune.
Emotional response and heart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emotional response" instead a noun "Heart".
Both terms in one sentence
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Forgotten Phlebotinum: Kvothe learns a mental technique called Heart of Stone, which eliminates the users emotional response and lets them "sit at the funeral of their sister and feel nothing".
- Kvothe from The Name of the Wind learns a mental technique called Heart of Stone, which eliminates the user's emotional response and lets them "sit at the funeral of their sister and feel nothing".
Source: Forgotten Phlebotinum -
In a notable example of Creator Couple, her main contribution to the original trilogy was to serve as The Heart, balancing out Lucas' highly technical, visual-minded vision with an emphasis on character development, plot and emotional response — Mark Hamill in particular has confirmed this.
Source: Creator / George Lucas
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Heart and Emotional response. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/emotional_response/heart
Emotional response & Heart. N.p., 2016. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/emotional_response/heart>.
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