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emotion

Pronunciation: /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/

The English word “emotion” has 3 meanings listed here.

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.

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”).

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