Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Emotion

Emotion , noun

[Latin emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: compare French émotion. See Move, and compare 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.
How different the emotions between departure and return! — W. Irving
Some vague emotion of delight. — Tennyson