emotion English · revision 6935

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1579|origins=la emoveo}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ ''(UK)''; /ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/, /iˈmoʊ.ʃən/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|émotion]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|fro|esmovoir|t=to stir up]], after mouvoir, motion,^(MWU 2024)^(Hoad 1986) from [[la|emoveo|alt=ēmovēre|t=to move out, remove, agitate]], from [[m|la|ex|t=out]] and [[m|la|moveo|alt=movēre|t=to move]] (see [[move]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A public disturbance or commotion: 1579, in ''great stirs and emotions in Lombardy'';^(Cresswell 2021)^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988) the 1570s in Etymonline.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Word Origins notes that the modern meaning is surprisingly recent: the word first meant a commotion and then a movement or migration (1603).^(Cresswell 2021)^(OED 1989) A physical agitation is from 1692 and obsolete.^(OED 1989) Strong feeling, a disturbance of the mind, is from 1660, when the word came into common use,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) and any feeling, in psychology, by 1808.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) A Middle English term for feelings was ''wits of the heart''.^(Etymonline) [[emotional|alt=Emotional]] is from 1834, in John Stuart Mill, and [[emote]] an American back-formation of 1917.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1579 – a public commotion.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1603 – a migration.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1660 – strong feeling.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1808 – any feeling.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1834 – emotional.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A strong [[feeling]] such as joy, sorrow, anger or love.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Instinctive feeling as opposed to [[reason]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[emotionable]]

+ * [[emotionless]]

+ * [[emoticon]]

+ * [[unemotioned]]

+ * [[emotional]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emote]]

+ * [[emotive]]

+ * [[move]]

+ * [[motion]]

+ * [[commotion]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}