Would human history be different if William’s James commissioned Dmitri Mendeleev and Sigmund Freud to design, label, and quantify human emotions into a systematic map?— like a periodic chart for ‘feelings’. And, there is in fact, no commensurate synonym capable of capturing ‘emotions’ essence (not in the English language anyway). ‘Feelings,’ is a syntactic necessity, not a synonym — a delusional qualifier at its reaching best.