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Emotion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Emotion has 1 sense
- emotion(n = noun.feeling) - any strong feeling; is a kind of feeling
has particulars: cer, conditioned emotion, conditioned emotional response, anger, choler, ire, fear, fearfulness, fright, awe, fear, reverence, veneration, anxiety, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, love, hate, hatred, emotional state, spirit
Derived forms verb emote1, adjective emotional1, adjective emotional3
CIDE DICTIONARY
Emotion, n. [L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. émotion. See Move, and cf. Emmove.].
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. [1913 Webster]
"How different the emotions between departure and return!"
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"Some vague emotion of delight."
Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Emotion, n. a strong mental or instinctive feeling such as love or fear.
Etymology
earlier = agitation, disturbance of the mind, f. F {eacute}motion f. {eacute}mouvoir excite
DEVIL DICTIONARY
Emotion
n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.THESAURUS
Emotion
a high, affect, affection, affectivity, arousal, attitude, emotional charge, emotional shade, emotivity, excitability, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, experience, feeling, feeling tone, foreboding, gut reaction, heartthrob, impression, manic state, mental attitude, opinion, passion, position, posture, presentiment, profound sense, psychology, reaction, response, responsiveness, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, stance, stimulation, susceptibilities, undercurrent, way of thinkingROGET THESAURUS
Emotion
Feeling
N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).
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