different between emotion vs uncomputerlike

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

Etymology

un- +? computerlike

Adjective

uncomputerlike (comparative more uncomputerlike, superlative most uncomputerlike)

1. Not like a computer; having traits not usually associated with computers, such as self-awareness and emotion.
   • 1974, Association for Computers and the Humanities, Computers and the Humanities

     Hence the equipment and environment were designed to be reliable and quiet, and as uncomputerlike in appearance as possible.

   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

     Holly faded into focus on the sleeping quarters' vid-screen. 'Oi,' he said, rather un-computerlike, 'I've just opened the radiation seals to the cargo decks. […]

   • 1994, Michael Bérubé, Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics

     […] or whether HAL has 'released' the tape to Bowman as a final, uncomputerlike gesture either of goodwill...

   • 1999, Ian Douglas, Luna Marine

     And if I didn't know better, I'd swear she just had a very uncomputerlike burst of pure, creative thought!

   • 2002, Feng-Hsiung Hsu, Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion

     Hsu refutes Kasparov's controversial claim that only human intervention could have allowed Deep Blue to make its decisive, "uncomputerlike" moves.

   • 2004, William Hirstein, Brain Fiction

     Bias based on overapplication of the computer metaphor to a very uncomputerlike biological system...