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Emotion Very Common

Origin: Latin suffix -tion

Emotion has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any strong feeling

"The sudden noise caused a surge of emotion to wash over her."

2

movement; agitation

"The sudden emotion in his voice betrayed his inner agitation as he paced the room."

Related Terms
cry love fear happy glad joy surprise feel feeling regret anger shock care psyops stolid vulcan counteremotion vegetotherapy telepathy viscerally
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
feeling
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
conditioned emotional response anger fear anxiety joy love hate emotional state

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir ("excite"), based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō ("to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate"), from ē- ("out") (variant of ex-), and moveō ("move").

Rhyming Words
ion aion tion zion pion sion gion bion fion lion dion cion rion orion obion axion deion trion diion arion
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