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Emotion vs Nonemotional - What's the difference?

emotion | nonemotional |

As a noun emotion

is emotion.

As an adjective nonemotional is

not emotional; unrelated to emotion.

emotion

English

Noun

(wikipedia emotion) (en noun)
  • 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.
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  • A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

    • Derived terms

    * emotionable * emotional

    Synonyms

    * (sense, person's internal state of being) feeling, affect

    nonemotional

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-emotional

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not emotional; unrelated to emotion.
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