emotion

Etymology

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”).

noun

  1. (obsolete) Movement; agitation. [16th–18th c.]
    and the water continuing in the caverns[…]caused the emotion or earthquake 1758, “Observations on a slight Earthquake”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume L, page 246
  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.

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