Sad is to Melancholy; as Anger is to ________
The expression of anger can have so many forms. At times, I feel angry about certain events or situations in my life, but I never wish to throw things, destroy objects or hit anyone because of them. Some folks do.
I'm searching for a word that expresses a variation of that emotion without it sounding like something so terribly bitter or cynical. At first, I thought maybe "displeasure", but that doesn't really seem to do it -- In an unoriginal way, it's just too much of just a simple negation.
I love the delicate nuances of word-usage and its application to language. There are many wonderful shades of emotion that simply do not have discrete single-word descriptors. I am not deeply familiar with the languages that utilize icons/pictures to represent concepts but I imagine that with such writing, some very lovely expressions are possible.
If you've ever been to a hospital and they are asking the patient to describe their level of pain, they often have a little card with numbers from one to ten listed along with several Mr. Painy-Face pictographs. They all surely depict level of pain, but within that one concept there are very different faces. Perhaps even six or even ten is over-simplistic. It kind of reminds me of the days when I was learning calculus with the study of limits, differentials and integration:
limit f(x) = b
x -> a
and as x (or the change in variation of each Mr. Painy-Face) approaches zero and by Mighty Math Magic the function becomes much more elegant as:
f'(x) = dy/dx
But it can never be zero - or it just won't work. and the proof is left up the reader (read in some college math text)., Yeah, I'll do that when I am REALLY bored.
I'm searching for a word that expresses a variation of that emotion without it sounding like something so terribly bitter or cynical. At first, I thought maybe "displeasure", but that doesn't really seem to do it -- In an unoriginal way, it's just too much of just a simple negation.
I love the delicate nuances of word-usage and its application to language. There are many wonderful shades of emotion that simply do not have discrete single-word descriptors. I am not deeply familiar with the languages that utilize icons/pictures to represent concepts but I imagine that with such writing, some very lovely expressions are possible.
If you've ever been to a hospital and they are asking the patient to describe their level of pain, they often have a little card with numbers from one to ten listed along with several Mr. Painy-Face pictographs. They all surely depict level of pain, but within that one concept there are very different faces. Perhaps even six or even ten is over-simplistic. It kind of reminds me of the days when I was learning calculus with the study of limits, differentials and integration:
limit f(x) = b
x -> a
and as x (or the change in variation of each Mr. Painy-Face) approaches zero and by Mighty Math Magic the function becomes much more elegant as:
f'(x) = dy/dx
But it can never be zero - or it just won't work. and the proof is left up the reader (read in some college math text)., Yeah, I'll do that when I am REALLY bored.