emotion

名词 n.
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/    /ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/|/iˈmoʊ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Movement; agitation. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — and the water continuing in the caverns[…]caused the emotion or earthquake
  2. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. countable,uncountable
    — He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
  3. A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response. countable,uncountable

词形变化

emotions plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotion
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”).
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