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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Emotion \E*mo"tion\, n. [L. emovere emotum to remove, shake,
stir up e out + movere to move: cf F. ['e]motion. See
{Move}, and cf {Emmove}.]
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind
caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some
sensible effect on the body.
How different the emotions between departure and
return! --W. Irving.
Some vague emotion of delight. --Tennyson.
Syn: Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation;
passion; excitement.
Usage: {Emotion}, {Feeling}, {Agitation}. Feeling is the
weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind.
Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action
of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as an
emotion of pity, terror, etc Agitation may the bodily
or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from
a vehement struggle between contending desires or
emotions. See {Passion}. ``Agitations have but one
character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with
the objects that awaken them There are emotions
either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or
strong, either painful or pleasing.'' --Crabb.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
emotion
n : any strong feeling
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the
heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge
of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.
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