emotion
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ʃən noun
1.
2.
any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.
3.
any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.
4.
an instance of this.
5.
something that causes such a reaction: the powerful emotion of a great symphony.
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World English Dictionary
emotion (ɪˈməʊʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| any strong feeling, as of joy, sorrow, or fear | |
| [C16: from French, from Old French esmovoir to excite, from Latin ēmovēre to disturb, from movēre to | |
| e'motionless | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
emotion
1570s, "a (physical) moving, stirring, agitation," from M.Fr. emotion, from O.Fr. emouvoir "stir up," from L. emovere "move out, remove, agitate," from ex- "out" + movere "to move" (see move). Sense of "strong feeling" is first recorded 1650s; extended to "any feeling" 1808.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
emotion e·mo·tion (ĭ-mō'shən)
n.
An intense mental state that arises subjectively rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes.
e·mo'tion·al adj.
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Science Dictionary
| emotion (ĭ-mō'shən) Pronunciation Key
A psychological state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is sometimes accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling. |
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Example sentences
These episodes can range from nightmares to mental reenactments of my injury to inexplicable waves of emotion.
She lays much stress on the subconscious mental life, the domain of vague emotion and rapidly fugitive thought.
His fresh sight of this beauty quickens in him an emotion of wonder and of joy which impels him to expression.
What power the judicial system has for sorting through conflicting claims, even those based on emotion.
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