The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word EMOTIONS
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result EMOTIONS
- Feelings generated by online crap, perhaps?
- Strong feelings as earth moves
- What could be mooniest feelings
- Lovers should express them — so no time to be wasted!
- One is wrong about French word for ‘feelings‘
- European proposals generating high feelings
- Time soon modifies feelings
- Feelings shown by people put into some distress
- More than one feeling stressed at heart about proposal
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What does EMOTIONS mean?
EMOTIONS noun- A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
- A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.