a strong feeling, e.g. anger, fear, or joy, often involving physiological changes, e.g. a rise in the pulse rate
such feelings considered collectively
instinctive feelings or reactions, esp as opposed to reason
emotionless adj
[early French emotion, from emouvoir to stir up, via Old French esmovoir from Latin exmovēre to move away, disturb, from ex-1 + movēre to move1]