emotion

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

e·mo·tion (ĭ-mōʹshən)n.
1. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling:
the emotions of joy, sorrow, reverence, hate, and love.
2. A state of mental agitation or disturbance:
spoke unsteadily in a voice that betrayed his emotion.
See Synonyms at feeling.
3. The part of the consciousness that involves feeling; sensibility: “The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect” (Isaac Bashevis Singer).  [French émotion, from Old French, from esmovoir, to excite, from Vulgar Latin *exmovēre: Latin ex-, ex- + Latin movēre, to move; See meuə- in Indo-European Roots.]