emotion

See also: Emotion and émotion

English

Etymology

From French émotion, from émouvoir (“excite”) based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, agitate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).

Pronunciation

(General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmoʊʃən/, /iˈmoʊʃən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈməʊʃən/
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Rhymes: -əʊʃən

Noun

emotion (countable and uncountable, plural emotions)

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.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
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

▼ <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_PIE_root_*mew-' title='Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *mew-'>English terms derived from the PIE root *mew-</a>‎ (0 c, 52 e)

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/commotion' title='commotion'>commotion</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/demote' title='demote'>demote</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/emote' title='emote'>emote</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/emoter' title='emoter'>emoter</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/emoticon' title='emoticon'>emoticon</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/emotion' title='emotion'>emotion</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/emotionable' title='emotionable'>emotionable</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/emotional' title='emotional'>emotional</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/immovable' title='immovable'>immovable</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/locomote' title='locomote'>locomote</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/locomotion' title='locomotion'>locomotion</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/locomotive' title='locomotive'>locomotive</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/mobile' title='mobile'>mobile</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/mobility' title='mobility'>mobility</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/mobilization' title='mobilization'>mobilization</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/mobilize' title='mobilize'>mobilize</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/motile' title='motile'>motile</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/motility' title='motility'>motility</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/motion' title='motion'>motion</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/motionless' title='motionless'>motionless</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/motive' title='motive'>motive</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/motor' title='motor'>motor</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movability' title='movability'>movability</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movable' title='movable'>movable</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movableness' title='movableness'>movableness</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movably' title='movably'>movably</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movant' title='movant'>movant</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/moveless' title='moveless'>moveless</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movelessly' title='movelessly'>movelessly</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movelessness' title='movelessness'>movelessness</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movement' title='movement'>movement</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movent' title='movent'>movent</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/mover' title='mover'>mover</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movie' title='movie'>movie</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/moving' title='moving'>moving</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movingly' title='movingly'>movingly</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/movingness' title='movingness'>movingness</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/overemote' title='overemote'>overemote</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/premotion' title='premotion'>premotion</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/promote' title='promote'>promote</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/promotion' title='promotion'>promotion</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/promotional' title='promotional'>promotional</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/remote' title='remote'>remote</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/remoteness' title='remoteness'>remoteness</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/removable' title='removable'>removable</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/removal' title='removal'>removal</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/removalist' title='removalist'>removalist</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/remove' title='remove'>remove</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/remover' title='remover'>remover</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/unmovable' title='unmovable'>unmovable</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/unmoveable' title='unmoveable'>unmoveable</a>

Translations

person's internal state of being

Afrikaans: emosie
Albanian: emocion (sq) m
Arabic: عَاطِفَة‎ f (ʿāṭifa), (plural:) عَوَاطِف‎ f pl (ʿawāṭif), إِحْسَاس‎ (ar) m (ʾiḥsās)
Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʿmunkʿ), հույզ (hy) (huyz)
Asturian: emoción f
Azerbaijani: emosiya, duyğu (az)
Belarusian: эмо́цыя f (emócyja), пачуццё (be) n (pačuccjó)
Bengali: অনুভূতি (bn) (ônubhūti)
Bulgarian: чу́вство (bg) n (čúvstvo), емо́ция (bg) f (emócija)
Burmese: စိတ်ရှုတ်ခြင်း (cithruthkrang:)
Catalan: emoció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 感情 (zh) (gǎnqíng), 情感 (zh) (qínggǎn)
Czech: emoce f
Danish: følelse (da)
Dutch: emotie (nl) f
Esperanto: emocio
Estonian: emotsioon
Finnish: tunne (fi)
French: émotion (fr) f
Galician: emoción (gl) f
Georgian: ემოცია (emocia)
German: Gefühl (de) n, Empfindung (de) f Emotion (de) f
Greek: συναίσθημα (el) n (synaísthima)
Ancient: πάθος n (páthos)
Hindi: भावना (hi) f (bhāvnā)
Hungarian: érzés (hu), érzelem (hu)
Icelandic: geðshræring (is) f
Ido: emoco (io)
Indonesian: emosi (id)
Irish: mothúchán (ga)
Italian: emozione (it) f
Japanese: 感情 (ja) (かんじょう, kanjō), 心緒 (しんしょ, shinsho)
Kazakh: эмоция (émocïya), сезім (kk) (sezim)
Khmer: អារម្មណ៍ (km) (ʾaarɑm)
Korean: 감정 (ko) (gamjeong) (感情 (ko))
Kyrgyz: эмоция (ky) (emotsiya)

Lao: ອາລົມ (’ā lom)
Latin: affectus m, sensus (la) m
Latvian: emocija f
Lithuanian: emocija f
Macedonian: чувство n (čuvstvo), емо́ција f (emócija)
Maltese: emozzjoni f
Maori: panapana (strong), kakare
Mongolian: сэтгэлийн хөдөлгөөн (setgelijn hödölgöön)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: følelse (no) m, emosjon (no) m
Pali: ārammaṇa
Pashto: احساس‎ (ps) m (ehsās)
Persian: احساس‎ (fa) (ehsâs), هیجان‎ (fa) (hijân)
Polish: emocja (pl) f
Portuguese: emoção (pt) f
Romanian: emoție (ro)
Russian: эмо́ция (ru) f (emócija), чу́вство (ru) n (čúvstvo) (the first "в" is silent)
Samogitian: emuocėjė f
Scottish Gaelic: faireachdainn f, (strong) reachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: осећај m, чувство n, емоција f

Roman: osećaj (sh) m, čuvstvo (sh) n, emocija (sh) f
Slovak: emócia (sk) f
Slovene: čustvo (sl) n
Spanish: afecto (es) m, emoción (es) f
Swedish: känsla (sv) c, emotion (sv)
Tagalog: sandandam, emosyon, damdamin (tl)
Tajik: эҳсос (ehsos), кайфият (kayfiyat)
Thai: อารมณ์ (th) (aa-rom)
Turkish: duygu (tr)
Turkmen: duýgy
Ukrainian: емо́ція f (emócija), почуття́ (uk) n (počuttjá)
Urdu: بهاونا‎ f (bhāvnā)
Uzbek: emotsiya (uz)
Vietnamese: cảm xúc (vi)
Welsh: emosiwn (cy) m

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