emotion

See also: Emotion and émotion

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French émotion, from émouvoir (“excite”) based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, agitate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃən/, /iˈmoʊʃən/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃən/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -əʊʃən

Noun

emotion (countable and uncountable, plural emotions)

1. 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.
2. A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

Synonyms

• (person's internal state of being): feeling, affect

Derived terms

• emotionable
• emotional

Translations

person's internal state of being

• Afrikaans: emosie
• Albanian: emocion (sq) m
• Arabic: عَاطِفَة f (ʕāṭifa), (plural:) عَوَاطِف f pl (ʕawāṭif), إِحْسَاس (ar) m (ʔiḥsās)
• Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʻmunkʻ), հույզ (hy) (huyz)
• Asturian: emoción f
• Azerbaijani: emosiya, duyğu (az)
• Belarusian: эмо́цыя f (emócyja), пачуццё (be) n (pačuccjó)
• Bengali: অনুভূতি (bn) (onubhuti)
• Bulgarian: чу́вство (bg) n (čúvstvo), емо́ция (bg) f (emócija)
• Burmese: စိတ်ရှုတ်ခြင်း (cithruthkrang:)
• Catalan: emoció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 感情 (zh) (gǎnqíng), 情感 (zh) (qínggǎn)

• Czech: emoce f
• Danish: følelse (da)
• Dutch: emotie (nl) f
• Esperanto: emocio
• Estonian: emotsioon
• Finnish: tunne (fi)
• French: émotion (fr) f
• Galician: emoción (gl) f
• Georgian: ემოცია (emocia)
• German: Gefühl (de) n, Empfindung (de) f Emotion (de) f
• Greek: συναίσθημα (el) n (synaísthima)

  Ancient: πάθος n (páthos)

• Hindi: भावना (hi) f (bhāvnā)
• Hungarian: érzés (hu)
• Icelandic: geðshræring (is) f
• Ido: emoco (io)
• Indonesian: emosi (id)
• Irish: mothúchán (ga)
• Italian: emozione (it) f
• Japanese: 感情 (ja) (かんじょう, kanjō), 心緒 (しんしょ, shinsho)
• Kazakh: эмоция (émosiä), сезім (kk) (sezım)
• Khmer: អារម្មណ៍ (km) (ʼaarɑm)
• Korean: 감정 (ko) (gamjeong) (感情 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: эмоция (ky) (emotsiya)
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• Lao: ອາລົມ (ʼā lom)
• Latin: affectus m, sensus (la) m
• Latvian: emocija f
• Lithuanian: emocija f
• Macedonian: чувство n (čuvstvo), емо́ција f (emócija)
• Maltese: emozzjoni f
• Maori: panapana (strong), kakare
• Mongolian: сэтгэлийн хөдөлгөөн (setgeliin xödölgöön)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m, emosjon (no) m

• Pali: ārammaṇa
• Pashto: احساس (ps) m (ehsās)
• Persian: احساس (fa) (ehsâs), هیجان (fa) (hijân)
• Polish: emocja (pl) f
• Portuguese: emoção (pt) f
• Romanian: emoție (ro)
• Russian: эмо́ция (ru) f (emócija), чу́вство (ru) n (čúvstvo) (the first "в" is silent)
• Samogitian: emuocėjė f
• Scottish Gaelic: faireachdainn f, (strong) reachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осећај m, чувство n, емоција f

  Roman: osećaj (sh) m, čuvstvo (sh) n, emocija (sh) f

• Slovak: emócia (sk) f
• Slovene: čustvo (sl) n
• Spanish: afecto (es) m, emoción (es) f
• Swedish: känsla (sv) c, emotion (sv)
• Tagalog: sandandam, emosyon, damdamin (tl)
• Tajik: эҳсос (ehsos), кайфият (kayfiyat)
• Thai: อารมณ์ (th) (aa-rom)
• Turkish: duygu (tr)
• Turkmen: duýgy
• Ukrainian: емо́ція f (emócija), почуття́ (uk) n (počuttjá)
• Urdu: بهاونا f (bhāvnā)
• Uzbek: emotsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: cảm xúc (vi)
• Welsh: emosiwn (cy) m