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Passions Sentiments Affections

The word "emotion" originated in the late 1500s from the French word émouvoir, which means "to stir up". It was introduced in the early 1800s as a catch-all term for passions, sentiments, and affections. The modern concept of emotion emerged in the 1830s in the English language, before which people described feelings differently, using terms like "passions" and "accidents of the soul". While some cross-cultural studies show emotions are categorized differently across cultures, others believe there are universal basic emotions with cultural variations. Difficulty expressing or perceiving emotion is sometimes called alexithymia.

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Passions Sentiments Affections

The word "emotion" originated in the late 1500s from the French word émouvoir, which means "to stir up". It was introduced in the early 1800s as a catch-all term for passions, sentiments, and affections. The modern concept of emotion emerged in the 1830s in the English language, before which people described feelings differently, using terms like "passions" and "accidents of the soul". While some cross-cultural studies show emotions are categorized differently across cultures, others believe there are universal basic emotions with cultural variations. Difficulty expressing or perceiving emotion is sometimes called alexithymia.

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The word "emotion" dates back to 1579, when it was adapted from the French word émouvoir, which

means "to stir up". The term emotion was introduced into academic
discussion as a catch-all term to passions, sentiments and affections.[15] The word emotion was coined in the early 1800s by Thomas Brown and it is around the 1830s that the
modern concept of emotion first emerged for English Language. [16] "No one felt emotions before about 1830. Instead they felt other things - "passions", "accidents of the soul",
"moral sentiments" - and explained them very differently from how we understand emotions today." [16]

Some cross cultural studies indicate that the categorization of "emotion" and classification of basic emotions such as "anger" and "sadness" are not universal and that the
boundaries and domains of these concepts are categorized differently by all cultures. [17] However, others argue that there are some basic universal but spurious bases of
emotions in some cultures.[18] In psychiatry and psychology, an inability to express or perceive emotion is sometimes referred to as alexithymia.[19]

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