Definition of Emotion

Definition of EMOTION

1

a obsolete : disturbance b : excitement

2

a : the affective aspect of consciousness : feeling b : a state of feeling c : a conscious mental reaction (as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body

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Examples of EMOTION

1. a display of raw emotion
2. The defendant showed no emotion when the verdict was read.
3. She was overcome with emotion at the news of her friend's death.

Origin of EMOTION

Middle French, from emouvoir to stir up, from Old French esmovoir, from Latin emovēre to remove, displace, from e- + movēre to move

First Known Use: 1579

Related to EMOTION

Synonyms: chord, feeling, passion, sentiment

Antonyms: impassiveness, impassivity, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity

Related Words: impression, perception, sensation, sense; angle, attitude, outlook, perspective, standpoint, viewpoint; belief, conviction, judgment (or judgement), mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, verdict, view; receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity

Near Antonyms: insensitiveness, insensitivity, unfeelingness

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Other Psychology Terms

anxiety, conscience, fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, libido, mania, narcissism, neurosis, pathological, personality, phobia, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal

Rhymes with EMOTION

Boeotian, commotion, demotion, devotion, in motion, Laotian, promotion, slow-motion, stop-motion

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