emotion

Definitions

1. emotion (person's internal state of being)
2. Movement; agitation.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
3. excitement
4. A complex and usually strong subjective response, such as love or hate:affection, affectivity, feeling, sentiment.
5. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
   countable, uncountable
6. anticipation
7. aandoenlik, emosioneel عاطِفِيّا емоционално emocionalmente cituplně emotional følelsesmæssigt; følsomt συναισθηματικά, ευσυγκίνητα emocionalmente emotsionaalselt از نظر احساسی tunteellisesti avec émotion בְרַגשָנוּת भावुकतापूर्वक osjećajno emocionálisan secara emosional á tilfinningaríkan hátt con emozione 感情的に 감정적으로 jausmingai, emocionaliai emocionāli; saviļņojoši dengan emosi emotioneelfølsomt; rørende emocjonalnie په هيجان، داحساساتو له مخى، په مينه emocionalmente cu emoţie эмоционально e...
8. A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
   countable, uncountable
9. emoción, sentimiento intenso.
10. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling: the emotions of joy, sorrow, and anger.
11. Such mental states or the qualities that are associated with them, especially in contrast to reason: a decision based on emotion rather than logic.
12. any strong feeling, as of joy, sorrow, or fear
13. an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, etc., is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
14. any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, hate, love, etc.
15. a strong agitation of the feelings caused by experiencing love, fear, etc.
16. feeling, spirit, soul, passion, excitement, sensation, sentiment, agitation, fervour, ardour, vehemence, perturbation Her voice trembled with emotion.

Equivalents

Examples

“and the water continuing in the caverns[…]caused the emotion or earthquake”

“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.”

““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.”

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