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 Definitions of emotion  [ɪˈmoʊ ʃən]  

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Definition of 'emotion' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) emotion
an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, etc., is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.

2.  emotion
any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, hate, love, etc.

3.  emotion
a strong agitation of the feelings caused by experiencing love, fear, etc.

Etymology:  (1570–80; appar. < MF esmotion, derived on the model of movoir: motion, from esmovoir to set in motion, move the feelings < VL *exmovēre, for L ēmovēre; see e -, move , motion)

Definition of 'emotion' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) emotion
any strong feeling


Definition of 'emotion' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) emotion
a feeling or sentiment
He's not good at expressing his emotions.


Definition of 'emotion' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) emotion
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


Translation of 'emotion' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a (strong) feeling of any kind
Fear, joy, anger, love, jealousy are all emotions.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: emosie, gevoel Arabic flag Arabic: عاطِفَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: вълнения
Brazilian flag Brazilian: emoção Czech flag Czech: emoce German flag German: die Gefühlsbewegung
Danish flag Danish: følelse; sindsbevægelse Greek flag Greek: συναίσθημα Spanish flag Spanish: sentimiento
Estonian flag Estonian: tundmus Farsi flag Farsi: احساس Finnish flag Finnish: tunne
French flag French: émotion Hebrew flag Hebrew: רְגָשוֹת Hindi flag Hindi: भावना
Croatian flag Croatian: osjećaj Hungarian flag Hungarian: érzelem Indonesian flag Indonesian: perasaan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: geðshræring Italian flag Italian: emozione Japanese flag Japanese: 感情
Korean flag Korean: 감정 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: jausmas, emocija Latvian flag Latvian: jūtas; emocijas
Malay flag Malay: perasaan Dutch flag Dutch: gevoelen Norwegian flag Norwegian: (sterk) følelse, sinnsbev
Polish flag Polish: uczucie Persian flag Persian: احساس Pashto flag Pashto: هيجان، احساس
Portuguese flag Portuguese: emoção Romanian flag Romanian: sentiment Russian flag Russian: эмоция
Slovak flag Slovak: emócia Slovenian flag Slovenian: čustvo Serbian flag Serbian: emocija
Swedish flag Swedish: [stark] känsla Thai flag Thai: อารมณ์; ความรู้สึก Turkish flag Turkish: duygu, his
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 感情 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: почуття, емоція Urdu flag Urdu: کوئی شدید جذبہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cảm xúc Chinese flag Chinese: 感情

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