Other forms: emotions
An emotion is a strong feeling such as love, fear or anger. Something that arrives rather than something you decide.
Psychology distinguishes a handful of basic emotions found in every culture, and builds the rest from combinations. The word also names the state generally, so speaking with emotion means with visible feeling and showing no emotion means giving nothing away. The adjective emotional describes both a person easily moved and an occasion that moves people. Emotive is different, and describes something designed to provoke feeling.
An emotion is a moving out. Latin ēmoveō, from ē, out, and moveō, to move, meant to stir up or to remove, so feeling was understood as something that shifts you.
Middle French
emotion
English, today
emotion
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French emotion, from esmouvoir. 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA