Definitions for emotion

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emotion e·mo·tion

Spelling: [ih-moh-shuh n]

IPA: /ɪˈmoʊ ʃən/

Emotion is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in emotion (eimnoot).

Definitions for emotion

noun

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:

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 Examples for emotion

In the wake of the verdicts in Ferguson and New York City, many of us are still sore with emotion.

He was not a man given to casual affectionate display; the moment was charged with emotion.

She suggests mindfulness exercises to help us process the emotion before it triggers a response.

Malbone, greedy of emotion, was drinking to the dregs a passion that could have no to-morrow.

She was silent with emotion when Mrs. Hancock told her she was growing like her mother.

The aged philosopher endeavoured to speak, but his voice was tremulous with emotion.

Throughout all the stories of loss and pain with the Chief, there was barely a trace of emotion.

I like to be stirred by emotion, I suppose, and I like to study character.

Even when he opens up, the sentences are wooden, the scenes sucked dry of emotion.

Halbert's first emotion was surprise, his second was gratification.