emotion

Pronunciation: /ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun any strong feeling

Etymology

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”).

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Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
feeling
Narrower (hyponyms)
anxiety, conditioned emotional response, anger, emotional state, fear, hate

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