Noun: emotion
| Singular | emotion |
| Plural | emotions |
Sample Sentences
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and the water continuing in the caverns[…]caused the emotion or earthquake [1758, “Observations on a slight Earthquake”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume L, page 246:]
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He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
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“Just think about the last big decision you made. How much of it was based in emotion and how much was based in intellect? Most all big decisions are based in both.” […] Historically, placing weight on emotions has been dismissed. “What’s remarkable is that for so many years, people didn’t see emotions as conveying important messages,” he says. [2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN:]
Nouns inflected like emotion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Italic *eks
6. Latin ex
7. Latin ex-
8. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
12. Proto-Italic *moweō
13. Latin moveō
14. Latin ēmoveō
15. Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
16. Old French esmovoir
17. Middle French esmouvoir
18. Middle French emotionbor.
19. English emotion
20. Borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir (“excite”), based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”). See: French Nouns '
émotion', Latin Nouns '
ēmōtus'.
Verbs referencing "emotion"
Finnish Nouns
emootio, English Nouns
emoji, Irish Nouns
múisiam, Hungarian Nouns
emóció.