This article looks at how we understand emotion words in English, including their meanings and cultural aspects. It also gives a quick look at the Uzbek language for comparison. While everyone experiences basic emotions, languages show them in very different ways, which affects how we see, sort, and talk about feelings. English has a lot of words for emotions, with small differences, like sadness, melancholy, sorrow, and grief. Using ideas from psycholinguistics, this paper looks at how word choices, word relationships, and metaphors affect how we think about emotions. The study also checks out how English and Uzbek show similar feelings in different ways, because of their different cultural influences. The results of this study show that emotion words not only reflect our feelings but also change how speakers understand, explain, and share emotions.

Emotion words; how we think about language and emotions; the English language; putting emotions into groups; what words mean; how culture affects emotions; showing emotions; how language shapes thought; language about feelings; comparing languages; the Uzbek language.

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