indigenous emotions

n. 1. Categories of emotion that are specific to a particular culture and have no exact cultural or language equivalents. As an example, amae in Japanese is the emotion of relatedness between two people, Schadenfreude in Germany is the joy experienced from the pain or frustration of one's enemies, and semteende is the experience of being in a shameful social situation regardless of personal experience among the African group the Fulani. 2. In constructionist approaches to emotion, culturally shared scripts of reactions to situations.