*emotion*

n. [ L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. émotion. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

How different the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.

Syn. -- Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. -- 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, emotion; excitable; easily moved; sensational; as, an emotional nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give an emotional character to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with emotion. [ R. ] “The emotioned soul.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. unsusceptible to, destitute of, or showing no emotion; unmoved by feeling. Opposite of emotional; as, he kept his emotionless objectivity and faith in the cause he served. [ Narrower terms: matter-of-fact, prosaic; philosophical, philosophic; phlegmatic, phlegmatical, stolid; stoic, stoical; unblinking ] Also See: cool, passionless, unmoved(predicate), unmoving.
Syn. -- unemotional, passionless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + motion. ] Previous motion or excitement to action. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. remotio. See Remove. ] 1. The act of removing; removal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This remotion of the duke and her
Is practice only. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whitish gleam [ of the stars ] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]