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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
emotion/ɪˈməʊʃn/
▶noun a strong feeling, such as joy, anger, or sadness.
■ instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge.
– derivatives
emotionless adjective.
emotionless adjective.
– origin C16 (denoting a public disturbance): from Fr. émotion, from émouvoir ‘excite’, based on L. emovere, from e- ‘out’ + movere ‘move’.
'emotion' also found in these Oxford entries:
aargh
- abreaction
- access
- affect
- affection
- arouse
- bland
- boil
- bout
- burn
- burst
- cataplexy
- catch
- charge
- choke
- choky
- cold
- cold-blooded
- colour
- communicate
- contagious
- convulse
- dead
- denial
- dispassionate
- displacement
- display
- ebb
- ebullition
- elemental
- emote
- emoticon
- ersatz
- exclamation
- experience
- explode
- expression
- expressionism
- exude
- fake
- fan
- fear
- feel
- feeling
- fire
- fit
- flame
- flare
- flood
Forum discussions with the word(s) "emotion" in the title:
anxious emotion?
behaviour and emotion as appropriate
binding emotion
Emotion
emotion as plural or singular.
emotion expressed by "would"
emotion work
emotion/feeling/passion
feeling, emotion or 'quality'
feeling/emotion
Geewhizz emotion
had betrayed not the smallest emotion
half-defined emotion
looking for a right word for an emotion
Meaning of "a strong emotion"
Move - emotion: short sentence
movie and emotion
Need (emotion)
new emotion
overcome by vs. overcome with an emotion
overcome with emotion
put his emotion in check
sense / belief/ emotion/ judgment
She was overcome by an emotion that she could not tame.
This is probably the most common emotion felt. However, it doesn't always manifest itself as tears.
through the bars of distorting emotion
to open the floodgates of emotion and behaviour
what's the emotion behind "besotted"?
with emotion.
behaviour and emotion as appropriate
binding emotion
Emotion
emotion as plural or singular.
emotion expressed by "would"
emotion work
emotion/feeling/passion
feeling, emotion or 'quality'
feeling/emotion
Geewhizz emotion
had betrayed not the smallest emotion
half-defined emotion
looking for a right word for an emotion
Meaning of "a strong emotion"
Move - emotion: short sentence
movie and emotion
Need (emotion)
new emotion
overcome by vs. overcome with an emotion
overcome with emotion
put his emotion in check
sense / belief/ emotion/ judgment
She was overcome by an emotion that she could not tame.
This is probably the most common emotion felt. However, it doesn't always manifest itself as tears.
through the bars of distorting emotion
to open the floodgates of emotion and behaviour
what's the emotion behind "besotted"?
with emotion.
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