[C,U] a strong feeling such as love, fear or anger; the part of a person's character that consists of feelings:
He lost control of his emotions. * They expressed mixed emotions at the news. * Emotions are running high (= people are feeling very excited, angry, etc.). * The decision was based on emotion rather than rational thought. * She showed no emotion at the verdict. * Mary was overcome with emotion.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for emotion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is emotion a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, emotion is tagged as noun.
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