emotion

emotion
    n 1: any strong feeling
    

Emotion \E*mo"tion\, n. [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.
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         How different the emotions between departure and
         return!                                  --W. Irving.
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         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.
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EMOTION, n.  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.
    

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