Concepts of Form are Coupled with Exciting Qualities in Language

Concepts related to form are mixed in aesthetic expressions with those related to excitement, indicating that form belongs to a mental category of less exciting things.

Fernand Léger’s “Contrast of Forms.” Photo from Wikipedia. Public domain.

“From bodies various form’d, mutative shapes.”

— Ovid, Metamorphoses

Contents

∘ Concepts of Form
∘ Combinations of Less Excitement
∘ Why This is Interesting
∘ Heat (11)
∘ Fluidity (22)
∘ Dynamism and Speed (32)
∘ Disorder (22)
∘ Brightness (8)
∘ Upwardness (37)
∘ Outwardness (39)
∘ Loudness and High-Pitch (11)
∘ Length (5)
∘ Multiplicity (Large Numbers, 23)

Concepts of Form

Psychological relatives of the idea of form such as “making,” being a “thing,” being “built,” “building,” having “shape,” having “figure,” or being “it” are consistently coupled with exciting (emotionally arousing) perceptual and…