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emotion
Feeling or affect; borrowed through French from a Latin movement family and first used in English for disturbance, agitation, or social movement.
“Emotion was public motion before it became private feeling. The strong inward-feeling sense is a later semantic development, not the word's starting point.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishemotion
feeling; originally also disturbance, agitation, or social movement
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Middle French · Middle French, 16th centuryémotionmovement, agitation, or disturbance
- SOUND CHANGE
- English emotion borrows Middle French émotion with English stress and vowel adaptation.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- Movement, disturbance, and agitation develop toward strong feeling and later feeling generally.
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- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
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- established
- CHRONOLOGY
- Merriam-Webster reports English use in 1579; Etymonline places the earliest horizon in the 1570s.
3 CITATIONSEmotion — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseWord History: Middle French; First Known Use 1579 Emotion — Origin and historyHeadword history: French émotion; strong-feeling sense by the 1650s American Heritage Dictionary: emotionWord History: French émotion AUDIT CANONICAL EDGE 478 ↗
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ORIGINAL ↗Documents the semantic movement from agitation toward feeling.
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