emotion
(noun) any strong feeling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
emotion (countable and uncountable, plural emotions)
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.
A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
• (person's internal state of being): feeling, affect
Source: Wiktionary
E*mo"tion, n. Etym: [L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. Ă©motion. See Move, and cf. Emmove.]
Definition: 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.
– 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 May 2025
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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