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Definitions for Emotion

[1] an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
[2] any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.
[3] any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.
[4] an instance of this.
[5] something that causes such a reaction: the powerful emotion of a great symphony.
[6] any strong feeling, as of joy, sorrow, or fear

Words related to Emotion

love, shame, anger, sympathy, happiness, concern, sentiment, passion, fervor, remorse, pride, warmth, joy, sorrow, grief, desire, empathy, rage, excitement, sadness

Words nearby Emotion

emolument, emory, emory oak, emote, emoticon, emotion, emotional, emotional correctness, emotional deprivation, emotional disorder, emotional eating

Origin of Emotion

1570–80; apparently < Middle French esmotion, derived on the model of movoir: motion, from esmovoir to set in motion, move the feelings < Vulgar Latin *exmovēre, for Latin ēmovēre; see e-1, move, motion

Other words from Emotion

e·mo·tion·a·ble , adjective
e·mo·tion·less , adjective
pre·e·mo·tion , noun
e•mo′ tion•al adj.

Word origin for Emotion

C16: from French, from Old French esmovoir to excite, from Latin ēmovēre to disturb, from movēre to move

Synonyms for Emotion

affection, anger, concern, desire, despair, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, happiness, joy, love, passion, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, warmth, affect, agitation, ardor, commotion, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, excitability, inspiration, melancholy, perturbation, responsiveness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, thrill, tremor, vehemence, vibes, zeal, affectivity, gut reaction