# emotion

Pronunciation: say "ee-MOH-shuhn" US /ɪˈmoʊʃən/, UK /ɪˈməʊʃn̩/

## Noun

1. An internal state and involuntary bodily response to a thing or situation, shaped by physical state and the senses.
   - Simple: A feeling such as joy, fear, or anger that happens inside you.
   - _Grief is the emotion most people struggle to put into words._
   - _The therapist asked her to name the emotion behind her sudden anger._
2. A response in a non-human organism that has behavioral and physical features resembling a person's emotional reaction.
   - Simple: A feeling-like reaction in an animal, shown through its body and the way it behaves.
   - _Elephants appear to express emotion when they gather around the bones of a dead herd member._
   - _Studies of rats suggest they experience emotion during play, including something close to joy._

## Noun

3. A physical stirring or agitation; the moving about of something. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: A movement or stirring of something.

## Origin

It was borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir ("excite"), based on Latin ēmōtus, the past participle of ēmoveō ("to move out, stir up"), from ē- (a variant of ex-, "out") and moveō ("move").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/emotion (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).