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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Emotion \E*mo"tion\, n. [L. emovere emotum to remove, shake, stir up e out + movere to move: cf F. ['e]motion. See {Move}, and cf {Emmove}.] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! --W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. --Tennyson. Syn: Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. Usage: {Emotion}, {Feeling}, {Agitation}. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as an emotion of pity, terror, etc Agitation may the bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See {Passion}. ``Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing.'' --Crabb. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: emotion n : any strong feeling From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
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