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Feb 12, 2022
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The difference between emotion and feeling is that emotion means to move out from — that is to say, it implies, based on its Latin root emovere, to emanate from. It could have any particular quality; emotion can be rage or love or indifference. 

Feeling, on the other hand, implies a caring —the arousal of feeling implies not just an emanation, a movement…

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