emotion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Movement; agitation.

   and the water continuing in the caverns[…]caused the emotion or earthquake

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   any strong feeling

4. 4
   noun

   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”).