emotion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A strong feeling such as love, anger, fear, or joy

   Her voice shook with emotion as she thanked the crowd.

2. 2
   noun

   Feelings in general, as opposed to logical thought

   He tried to set aside emotion and look at the facts.

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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