# emotion

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ · frequency rank #5,215

## Definitions
1. Movement; agitation.
2. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
3. A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir (“excite”), based on Latin ēmōtus, past participle of ēmoveō (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate”), from ē- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and moveō (“move”).

## Easily confused with
- **erosion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emotion-vs-erosion)
- **emotive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emotion-vs-emotive)
- **emotions** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emotion-vs-emotions)
- **emotional** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emotion-vs-emotional)
- **edition** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/edition-vs-emotion)
- **elation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/elation-vs-emotion)

## Common misspellings (10)
`emmotion`, `emoiton`, `emosion`, `emotino`, `emotionn`, `emotoin`, `emottion`, `emtoion`, `eomtion`, `meotion`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/emotion