emotion
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, irritate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (CA): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊʃən
Noun
emotion (countable and uncountable, plural emotions)
- 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.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
- A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
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Category English terms derived from the Maaka root emotion- not found
Translations
person's internal state of being
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References
- “emotion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- emotion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “emotion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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