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Consider this hypothetical expression,
My relative is personification of bad vibes. He is always emitting negative energy.
I am looking for a casual idiomatic alternative for the word "emission".
I generally see it in the scientific context; gas emission, emission of energy from an atom etc.
I want to know how a native person would say it.
"Giving off" or "giving out" are casual.
As a native speaker, I would use "giving out negative energy" or "releasing negative energy".
Depending on your definition of "casual", then the word "ooze" might be a valid option. You can say someone "oozes negativity".
It's "casual" in that it doesn't sound scientific or clinical at all, but it's somewhat likelier to appear in a book or magazine article than in speech, where it can still be used for emphatic effect.
