Awe

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

Awe is an emotion comparable to wonder but less joyous. On Robert Plutchik's wheel of emotions awe is modeled as a combination of surprise and fear. Keltner and Haidt, in a highly-cited paper, describe it as 'In the upper reaches of pleasure and on the boundary of fear'.

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