English Explanatory Dictionary

emotion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ /ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/ /iˈmoʊ.ʃən/ en-us-emotion_2.ogg en-ca-emotion.ogg

Word forms

emotion emotions

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin ēmoveō Vulgar Latin *exmovēre Old French esmovoir Middle French esmouvoir Middle French emotionbor. English emotion Borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern 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”).

Synonyms

emotion kibun sensation sentiment senniment touch feeling affect

Related words

:Category:Emotions

Derived words

appeal to emotion counteremotion ememe emotag emoticon emotionable emotional emotioned emotionful emotioning emotionize emotionless emotionlike emotionology expressed emotion metaemotion nonemotion proto-emotion unemotioned
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