émotion

l'émotion (FR N-F ARCH) restless movement of a crowd that may result in a disturbance; (modern) intense affective state, characterized by physical and / or mental perturbation and disruption of normal rational responses to external events; (weakened sense) any clearly identifiable affective state. Emotions have fascinated men since antiquity. They were thought to consist of physical »humors« or fluids that flowed inside humans, causing »moisture« or »dryness,« along with excessive thinning or…