emotion

Meaning

Noun

  • movement; agitation
  • 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.
  • A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

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Origin

  • From Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō, from ē- (variant of ex-), and moveō.

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