emotion
n. C / Un. a strong feeling like love, anger, or fear. It is how your mind and body react to things that happen to you.
n. a strong instinctive feeling, such as love, fear, or joy, as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge. Often involves physiological changes and mental states that arise spontaneously rather than through conscious effort.
She struggled to hide her emotion during the sad movie.
The actor's performance was so powerful that it stirred deep emotion in everyone in the audience.
Psychologists often distinguish between primary and secondary responses, noting that a single event can trigger a complex cascade of emotion that evolves over several hours.
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”).
Uncountable when referring to the general capacity for feeling; countable when referring to specific types of feelings like 'anger' or 'joy'.