So great was his emotion that he could not utter a word.
Source: tatoeba (21037)
Emotion
//ɪˈməʊ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "emotion" (58 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (29)
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14 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriescapable of
1 entriescreated by
1 entriesdefined as
1 entriesderived
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
has property
1 entriesis a
5 entriesmeronym
1 entriespart of
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriesused for
1 entriesTranslations
127 translations across 81 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- emosie noun (person's internal state of being)
Albanian
2 entries- emocion noun (person's internal state of being)
- ndjenjë noun (person's internal state of being)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πάθος noun (person's internal state of being)
Arabic
3 entries- إِحْسَاس noun (person's internal state of being)
- عَاطِفَة noun (person's internal state of being)
- عَوَاطِف noun (person's internal state of being)
Armenian
2 entries- զգացմունք noun (person's internal state of being)
- հույզ noun (person's internal state of being)
Asturian
1 entries- emoción noun (person's internal state of being)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- duyğu noun (person's internal state of being)
- emosiya noun (person's internal state of being)
Belarusian
2 entries- пачуццё noun (person's internal state of being)
- эмо́цыя noun (person's internal state of being)
Bengali
1 entries- অনুভূতি noun (person's internal state of being)
Breton
1 entries- santad noun (person's internal state of being)
Bulgarian
2 entries- емо́ция noun (person's internal state of being)
- чу́вство noun (person's internal state of being)
Burmese
1 entries- စိတ်ရှုတ်ခြင်း noun (person's internal state of being)
Catalan
1 entries- emoció noun (person's internal state of being)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 情感 noun (person's internal state of being)
- 感情 noun (person's internal state of being)
Coptic
2 entries- ϫⲟⲩϥ ⲛ̀ϩⲏⲧ noun (person's internal state of being)
- ⲁⲓⲥⲑⲏⲥⲓⲥ noun (person's internal state of being)
Czech
1 entries- emoce noun (person's internal state of being)
Danish
2 entries- emotion noun (person's internal state of being)
- følelse noun (person's internal state of being)
Dutch
1 entries- emotie noun (person's internal state of being)
Esperanto
1 entries- emocio noun (person's internal state of being)
Estonian
1 entries- emotsioon noun (person's internal state of being)
Finnish
3 entries- tunne noun (person's internal state of being)
- tuntemus noun (person's internal state of being)
- tuntu noun (person's internal state of being)
French
1 entries- émotion noun (person's internal state of being)
Galician
1 entries- emoción noun (person's internal state of being)
Georgian
1 entries- ემოცია noun (person's internal state of being)
German
2 entries- Empfindung f Emotion noun (person's internal state of being)
- Gefühl noun (person's internal state of being)
Greek
1 entries- συναίσθημα noun (person's internal state of being)
Hebrew
1 entries- רֶגֶשׁ noun (person's internal state of being)
Hindi
1 entries- भावना noun (person's internal state of being)
Hungarian
2 entries- érzelem noun (person's internal state of being)
- érzés noun (person's internal state of being)
Icelandic
1 entries- geðshræring noun (person's internal state of being)
Ido
1 entries- emoco noun (person's internal state of being)
Indonesian
1 entries- emosi noun (person's internal state of being)
Ingrian
1 entries- cuvstva noun (person's internal state of being)
Irish
1 entries- mothúchán noun (person's internal state of being)
Italian
1 entries- emozione noun (person's internal state of being)
Japanese
2 entries- 心緒 noun (person's internal state of being)
- 感情 noun (person's internal state of being)
Kazakh
2 entries- сезім noun (person's internal state of being)
- эмоция noun (person's internal state of being)
Khmer
1 entries- អារម្មណ៍ noun (person's internal state of being)
Korean
1 entries- 감정 noun (person's internal state of being)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- эмоция noun (person's internal state of being)
Lao
1 entries- ອາລົມ noun (person's internal state of being)
Latin
2 entries- affectus noun (person's internal state of being)
- sensus noun (person's internal state of being)
Latvian
1 entries- emocija noun (person's internal state of being)
Literary Chinese
2 entries- 情 noun (person's internal state of being)
- 感 noun (person's internal state of being)
Lithuanian
1 entries- emocija noun (person's internal state of being)
Macedonian
2 entries- емо́ција noun (person's internal state of being)
- чувство noun (person's internal state of being)
Maltese
1 entries- emozzjoni noun (person's internal state of being)
Middle English
1 entries- talent noun (person's internal state of being)
Mongolian
1 entries- сэтгэлийн хөдөлгөөн noun (person's internal state of being)
Māori
3 entries- aurongo noun (person's internal state of being)
- kakare noun (person's internal state of being)
- panapana noun (person's internal state of being)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- his noun (person's internal state of being)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- emosjon noun (person's internal state of being)
- følelse noun (person's internal state of being)
Pali
1 entries- ārammaṇa noun (person's internal state of being)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- емоция noun (person's internal state of being)
- чувство noun (person's internal state of being)
Pashto
1 entries- احساس noun (person's internal state of being)
Persian
2 entries- احساس noun (person's internal state of being)
- هیجان noun (person's internal state of being)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Jefeel noun (person's internal state of being)
Polish
2 entries- emocja noun (person's internal state of being)
- uczucie noun (person's internal state of being)
Portuguese
1 entries- emoção noun (person's internal state of being)
Romanian
1 entries- emoție noun (person's internal state of being)
Russian
2 entries- чу́вство noun (person's internal state of being)
- эмо́ция noun (person's internal state of being)
Samogitian
1 entries- emuocėjė noun (person's internal state of being)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- faireachdainn noun (person's internal state of being)
- reachd noun (person's internal state of being)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- emocija noun (person's internal state of being)
- osećaj noun (person's internal state of being)
- čuvstvo noun (person's internal state of being)
- емоција noun (person's internal state of being)
Slovak
1 entries- emócia noun (person's internal state of being)
Slovene
1 entries- čustvo noun (person's internal state of being)
Spanish
2 entries- afecto noun (person's internal state of being)
- emoción noun (person's internal state of being)
Swedish
2 entries- emotion noun (person's internal state of being)
- känsla noun (person's internal state of being)
Tagalog
3 entries- damdamin noun (person's internal state of being)
- emosyon noun (person's internal state of being)
- sandandam noun (person's internal state of being)
Tajik
2 entries- кайфият noun (person's internal state of being)
- эҳсос noun (person's internal state of being)
Tamil
2 entries- உணர்ச்சி noun (person's internal state of being)
- உணர்வு noun (person's internal state of being)
Thai
1 entries- อารมณ์ noun (person's internal state of being)
Tocharian B
1 entries- eṅkäl noun (person's internal state of being)
Turkish
2 entries- duygu noun (person's internal state of being)
- his noun (person's internal state of being)
Turkmen
1 entries- duýgy noun (person's internal state of being)
Ukrainian
2 entries- емо́ція noun (person's internal state of being)
- почуття́ noun (person's internal state of being)
Urdu
1 entries- جَذْبَات noun (person's internal state of being)
Uyghur
3 entries- تۇيغۇ noun (person's internal state of being)
- كەيپىيات noun (person's internal state of being)
- ھېسىيات noun (person's internal state of being)
Uzbek
4 entries- emotsiya noun (person's internal state of being)
- his noun (person's internal state of being)
- hissiyot noun (person's internal state of being)
- kayfiyat noun (person's internal state of being)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cảm xúc noun (person's internal state of being)
Welsh
1 entries- emosiwn noun (person's internal state of being)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Emotion counts above vocabulary in verbal communication.
Source: tatoeba (239764)
Man is a creature of emotion.
Source: tatoeba (270264)
He heard the ill tidings without emotion.
Source: tatoeba (291240)
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