Added 8 October 2026
emotion
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ noun
In Latin: affectus, sensus Wiktionary
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- Movement; agitation. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
- 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.
Origin
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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