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e⋅mo⋅tion

  [i-moh-shuhn]
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–noun
1. an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
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.
Origin:
1570–80; appar. < MF esmotion, derived on the model of movoir: motion, from esmovoir to set in motion, move the feelings < VL *exmovēre, for L ēmovēre; see e-, move, motion

Related forms:
e⋅mo⋅tion⋅a⋅ble, adjective
e⋅mo⋅tion⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See feeling.
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e·mo·tion   (ĭ-mō'shən)   
n.  
  1. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.
  2. A state of mental agitation or disturbance: spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion. See Synonyms at feeling.
  3. The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility: "The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect" (Isaac Bashevis Singer).

[French émotion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movēre, to move; see meuə- in Indo-European roots.]
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Emotion

E*mo"tion\, n. [L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. ['e]motion. See Move, and cf. Emmove.] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body.

How different the emotions between departure and return! --W. Irving.

Some vague emotion of delight. --Tennyson.

Syn: Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement.

Usage: Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may the bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. "Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing." --Crabb.
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Language Translation for : emotion
Spanish: sentimiento,
German: die Gefühlsbewegung,
Japanese: 感情
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emotion 
1579, "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 1660; extended to "any feeling" 1808. Emote is a 1917 back-formation. Emotional "liable to emotion" is from 1857.
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Main Entry: emo·tion
Pronunciation: i-'mO-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the affective aspect of consciousness
2 : a stateof feeling
3 : a psychic and physical reaction (as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as feeling and physiologically involving changes that prepare the body for action—compare AFFECT —emo·tion·al /-shn&l, -sh&n-&l/ adjective —emo·tion·al·i·ty /-"mO-sh&-'nal-&t-E/ noun plural -ties
—emo·tion·al·ly /-'mO-shn&-lE, -sh&n-&l-E/ adverb
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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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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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