emotion

noun
/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/UK/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən/CA

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from ēmōtus
  2. borrowed from emotion

Definitions

  1. Movement

    Movement; agitation.

    • 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 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.

  3. A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to…

    A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at emotion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at emotion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at emotion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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