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Meaning of "emotion" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EMOTION

From French, from Old French esmovoir to excite, from Latin ēmovēre to disturb, from movēre to move.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EMOTION

emotion  [ɪˈməʊʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMOTION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Emotion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EMOTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Emotion

In psychology and philosophy, emotion is a subjective, conscious experience characterized primarily by psychophysiological expressions, biological reactions, and mental states. Emotion is often associated and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, and motivation. It also is influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters such as dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin, oxytocin, cortisol and GABA. Emotion is often the driving force behind motivation, positive or negative. An alternative definition of emotion is a "positive or negative experience that is associated with a particular pattern of physiological activity." The physiology of emotion is closely linked to arousal of the nervous system with various states and strengths of arousal relating, apparently, to particular emotions. Emotions are a complex state of feeling that results in physical and psychological changes that influence our behaviour. Those acting primarily on emotion may seem as if they are not thinking, but cognition is an important aspect of emotion, particularly the interpretation of events. For example, the experience of fear usually occurs in response to a threat.

Definition of emotion in the English dictionary

The definition of emotion in the dictionary is any strong feeling, as of joy, sorrow, or fear.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMOTION


amotion
əˈməʊʃən
commotion
kəˈməʊʃən
countermotion
ˈkaʊntəˌməʊʃən
devotion
dɪˈvəʊʃən
Goshen
ˈɡəʊʃən
groschen
ˈɡrəʊʃən
interocean
ˌɪntərˈəʊʃən
locomotion
ˌləʊkəˈməʊʃən
lotion
ˈləʊʃən
misdevotion
ˌmɪsdɪˈvəʊʃən
motion
ˈməʊʃən
nicotian
nɪˈkəʊʃən
notion
ˈnəʊʃən
ocean
ˈəʊʃən
potion
ˈpəʊʃən
premotion
priːˈməʊʃən
promotion
prəˈməʊʃən
remotion
rɪˈməʊʃən
slow-motion
ˌsləʊˈməʊʃən
subocean
sʌbˈəʊʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMOTION

emoticon
emotionable
emotional
emotional baggage
emotional blackmail
emotional correctness
emotional cripple
emotional intelligence
emotional labour
emotional literacy
emotional roller coaster
emotional wreck
emotionalisation
emotionalise
emotionalism
emotionalist
emotionalistic
emotionality
emotionalization
emotionalize

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMOTION

accreditation
aftershave lotion
baby lotion
body lotion
Brownian motion
calamine lotion
demotion
hand lotion
harmonic motion
in motion
love potion
Newton´s laws of motion
perpetual motion
proper motion
sales promotion
self-promotion
simple harmonic motion
slow motion
stop-motion
suntan lotion
time and motion

Synonyms and antonyms of emotion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EMOTION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «emotion» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of emotion

Translation of «emotion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMOTION

Find out the translation of emotion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of emotion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «emotion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

情绪
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

emoción
570 millions of speakers

English

emotion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भावना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عَاطِفَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эмоция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

emoção
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আবেগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

émotion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Emosi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gefühl
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

感情
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

감정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Emosi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cảm xúc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

உணர்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भावना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

duygu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emozione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

emocja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

емоція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

emoție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συναίσθημα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

emosie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

känsla
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

følelse
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of emotion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMOTION»

The term «emotion» is very widely used and occupies the 10.130 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMOTION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «emotion» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «emotion» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about emotion

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10 QUOTES WITH «EMOTION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word emotion.
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W. H. Auden
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Joe Biden
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
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Isabella Blow
Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.
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James Blunt
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
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Edward de Bono
Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
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John Bradshaw
In 'Reclaiming Virtue,' I argue that we have had an element missing in moral education. That element is 'affect.' Affect is simply the technical word for feeling or emotion.
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David Carson
I'm a big believer in the emotion of design, and the message that's sent before somebody begins to read, before they get the rest of the information; what is the emotional response they get to the product, to the story, to the painting - whatever it is.
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Marion Cotillard
I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
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Robert Crais
What they smell isn't the emotion of fear. What dogs can smell is the changes in a person's skin that suggest fear to the dog, anxiety, the way your skin sweats, the amount of uric acid that suddenly pours out of your pores.
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Rachel Cusk
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMOTION»

Discover the use of emotion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to emotion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Emotion and Meaning in Music
It clears the air of many confused notions . . . and lays the groundwork for exhaustive study of the basic problem of music theory and aesthetics, the relationship between pattern and meaning."—David Kraehenbuehl, Journal of Music Theory ...
Leonard B. Meyer, 2008
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Emotion
Now in its Second Edition, this text includes the most recent research to reflect new thinking about the area of emotion, and surveys both theoretical and practical topics ranging from neuroscience to development and culture.
James Kalat, Michelle Shiota, 2011
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Emotion and Consciousness
Presenting state-of-the-art work on the conscious and unconscious processes involved in emotion, this integrative volume brings together leading psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers.
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paula M. Niedenthal, Piotr Winkielman, 2007
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Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
In this wonderfully engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational ...
Antonio Damasio, 2008
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Fact and Value in Emotion
And can the distinction withstand careful scientific and philosophical scrutiny? The essays in this collection all suggest that the problems behind this vision of emotion science may be more complex than is commonly supposed.
Louis C. Charland, Peter Zachar, 2008
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Emotion
William Lyons presents a survey of psychological and physiological theories on emotions.
William Lyons, William E. Lyons, 1985
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Emotion: A Comprehensive Phenomenology of Theories and Their ...
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
James Hillman, 1999
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Molecules Of Emotion: Why You Feel The Way You Feel
I'M FEELING confident that my listeners have been properly introduced to the basic biochemicals of emotion, the neuropeptides and various other ligands and their receptors, and have learned a bit about how we scientists came to understand ...
Candace B. Pert, 2012
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Design and Emotion
As a forum for discussing the latest ideas in emotion-driven design, this book will prove to be essential reading for all human factors specialists involved in design.
Deana McDonagh, Paul Hekkert, Jeroen van Erp, 2004
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Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film
With forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography, and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of the visual arts.
Giuliana Bruno, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMOTION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term emotion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Owen James DiCandilo who doctors said would never show …
Doctors said he'd never show emotion - but clearly, that's not a problem! .... stand, walk, talk, show emotion and will live far from a 'normal' life.'. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Human Emotion Is The Key To Unlock Long-Term Brand Relationships
The reason Binet provides here is very interesting. If you can appeal to emotion, you appeal to all people from every demographic because it's ... «MediaPost Communications, Jul 15»
3
Disabled vet overwhelmed with emotion by business's generosity
“Whenever he came to pick up the vehicle, he showed such an emotion on how much he appreciated it, and what it meant to him and how ... «WMBF, Jul 15»
4
How confidence, emotion and the rise of the Nu-Scam shaped …
The work that won the majority of the awards in Cannes had confidence, authenticity and creativity at its heart, writes Carmen Bekker, ... «Marketing, Jul 15»
5
Emotional Attachment to Political Parties Seems to Make People …
Part of the fun in watching two politicians debate is seeing their foreheads sweat, their spit fly, and their fists pound the podium. Emotion is a ... «New York Magazine, Jul 15»
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How Choice And Emotion Can Influence Sexual Orientation
No, the emotion erupts automatically. Are these diverse emotional responses caused by differences in genetics? Of course not; such a claim ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
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Premiere: K.I.D. - 'New Emotion'
'New Emotion' sounds like bleached out 80s synth pop, with the production betraying a beautifully frayed quality. At heart, though, this is a romantic hymn, ... «Clash Magazine, Jul 15»
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Brad Jones marries Dani Lawrence in a day full of high emotion
Football stars gathered for the wedding of Liverpool goalkeeper Brad Jones – in which his beloved six-year-old son, who lost a battle with ... «hellomagazine.com, Jul 15»
9
Europe losing patience with Greek fiscal crisis
Like a century ago, politics and emotion seem to be driving Europe's leaders, this time towards something that they all once piously declared ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
10
Mixed Feelings About The Business Of Mining — And Manipulating …
(The sixth emotion, surprise, was omitted, perhaps because movie producers, like most business people, hate surprises.) Without revealing any ... «WBUR, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Emotion [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/emotion>. Apr 2024 ».
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