emotion

See also émotion

English

Etymology

From French émotion, from émouvoir (“excite”) based on Latin emotus, past participle of emovere (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, agitate”), from e- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and movere (“move”).

Pronunciation

• (GA) IPA: /əˈmoʊʃn̩/
• (CanE) IPA: /ɛˈmʌʊʃn̩/

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• Rhymes: -əʊʃən

Noun

Wikipedia emotion (plural emotions)

1. 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.
2. A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

Derived terms

• emotionable
• emotional

Synonyms

• (person's internal state of being): feeling, affect

Translations

person's internal state of being

Afrikaans: emosie (af) Arabic: عاطفة (ar) (ʿāṭifa) f., (plural:) عواطف (ar) (ʿawāṭif) f. pl., إحساس (ar) (ʿiḥsās) m. Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgac’munk’) Bulgarian: чувство (bg) (čúvstvo) n., емоция (bg) (emócija) f. Catalan: emoció (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 感情 (zh) (gǎnqíng), 情感 (zh) (qínggǎn) Czech: emoce (cs) f. Dutch: emotie (nl) f. Esperanto: emocio (eo) Finnish: tunne (fi) French: émotion (fr) f. German: Gefühl (de) n., Empfindung (de) f. Emotion (de) f. Greek: συναίσθημα (el) (synaísthima) n. Hindi: भावना (hi) (bhāvnā) f. Hungarian: érzés (hu) Ido: Emoco Italian: emozione (it) f.

Japanese: 感情 (ja) (かんじょう, kanjō) Korean: 감정 (ko) (gamjeong) (感情 (ko)) Lithuanian: emocija (lt) f. Maltese: emozzjoni (mt) f. Pashto: احساس (ps) Persian: احساس (fa) (ehsâs), هیجان (fa) (hijân) Polish: emocja (pl) f. Portuguese: emoção (pt) f. Romanian: emoție (ro) Russian: эмоция (ru) (emócija) f., (the first "в" is silent) чувство (ru) (čústvo) n. Samogitian: emuocėjė f. Scottish Gaelic: faireachdainn (gd) f., (strong) reachd (gd) f. Serbian: osećaj m., čuvstvo n. Slovene: čustvo (sl) n. Spanish: afecto (es), emoción (es) f. Ukrainian: емоція (uk) (emócija) f. Urdu: بهاونا (ur) (bhāvnā) f. Vietnamese: cảm xúc (vi)