Mental Process
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e·mo·tion [ ih-moh-shuhn ]
Definitions related to emotions:
  • Complex feeling state with psychic, somatic and behavioral components; external manifestation of emotion is affect.
    Sadock's Comprehensive Glossary of Psychiatry and Psychology
    BJ Sadock Titles Press, 2012
  • That aspect of consciousness devoted to affect or feeling; a strong feeling, aroused mental state, or intense state of drive or unrest directed toward a definite object, with physiological, somatic, and behavioral components.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Those affective states which can be experienced and have arousing and motivational properties.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • Emotion, a complex experience of consciousness, bodily sensation, and behaviour that reflects the personal significance of a thing, an event, or a state of affairs. "Emotions," wrote Aristotle (384-322 bce), "are all those feelings that so change men as to affect their judgements, and that are also...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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