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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emotion \E*mo"tion\, noun [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 be 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) 2.0 [wn]:
emotion
noun: any strong feeling
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "emotion": a high, affect, affection, affectivity, arousal, attitude, emotional charge, emotional shade, emotivity, excitability, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, experience, feeling, feeling tone, foreboding, gut reaction, heartthrob, impression, manic state, mental attitude, opinion, passion, position, posture, presentiment, profound sense, psychology, reaction, response, responsiveness, sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment, stance, stimulation, susceptibilities, undercurrent, way of thinking
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EMOTION, noun 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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