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emotionless

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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·less   (ĭ-mō'shən-lĭs)   
adj.  Devoid of emotion; impassive.
e·mo'tion·less·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

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
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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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