emotions
- 1Plural of emotion.
The film stirred up powerful emotions in everyone who watched it.
Grief and relief were among the conflicting emotions she felt at the funeral.
Note
The plural belongs only to the countable reading, where each feeling is a distinct state you can name and list: grief, relief, joy. The mass noun has no plural. A voice full of emotion means feeling in general, while mixed emotions means several feelings at once. The same plural also covers animals' reactions as well as people's, as in talk of whether animals have emotions.
emotions is a form of emotion
emotion, noun: An internal state and involuntary bodily response to a thing or situation, shaped by physical state and the senses. Full entry
- Forms
- emotionemotions plural
- Spelling
- emotion → emotions: add -s
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