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emotion
What does emotion mean?
emotion (noun): any strong feeling.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use emotion in a sentence?
- Anger is an emotion. (Tatoeba sentence #12827247 by rul, CC BY 2.0 FR)
Where does emotion come from?
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”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to emotion
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “emotion” mean?
any strong feeling
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a field or pasture
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the act of digging
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a center, midpoint
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