different between emotion vs felling

English

Etymology

From Middle French emotion (modern French émotion), from émouvoir (“excite”) based on Latin ?m?tus, past participle of ?move? (“to move out, move away, remove, stir up, irritate”), from ?- (“out”) (variant of ex-), and move? (“move”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /??mo???n/, /i?mo???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m????n/
• Rhymes: -????n

Noun

emotion (countable and uncountable, plural emotions)

1. (obsolete) movement; agitation [16th–18th c.]
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.

Synonyms

• (person's internal state of being): feeling, affect

Derived terms

• emotionable
• emotional

Related terms

Translations

References

• emotion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• emotion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• emotion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l??

Verb

felling

1. present participle of fell

Noun

felling (plural fellings)

1. The act by which something is felled.
   • 2013, B. G. Karlsson, Contested Belonging (page 107)

     One forest officer, stationed in the buffer of the Buxa Tiger Reserve, argued that 80% of the illegal fellings are carried out by forest villagers and that more or less all Rabhas are involved.

Translations

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?tli?k/
• Rhymes: -?tli?k

Noun

felling f (genitive singular fellingar, nominative plural fellingar)

1. pleat, crease, fold

Declension