emotion

== English == === 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”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/, /iˈmoʊ.ʃən/ Rhymes: -əʊʃən === Noun === emotion (countable and uncountable, plural emotions) (obsolete) Movement; agitation. [16th–18th c.] 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. ==== Synonyms ==== (person's internal state of being): feeling, affect ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “emotion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. emotion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “emotion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Danish == === Noun === emotion c (singular definite emotionen, plural indefinite emotioner) emotion ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “emotion” in Den Danske Ordbog