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January 29, 2024

emote

verb | ih-MOHT

What It Means

To emote is to express emotion in a very dramatic or obvious way.
// He stood on the stage, emoting and gesturing wildly.
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Examples of EMOTE

"An entity that feigns human emotions is arguably a worse object of affection than a cold, computational device that doesn't emote at all." â€” Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 26 Sept. 2023

Did You Know?

Emote is an example of what linguists call a back-formationâ€”that is, a word formed by trimming down an existing word. In this case, the parent word is emotion, which came to English by way of Middle French from the Latin verb emovÄ“re, meaning "to remove or displace" (making the "removal" of the suffix -ion to form emote quite fitting). As is sometimes the case with back-formations, emote has since its coinage in the early 20th century tended toward use that is less than entirely serious. It frequently appears in humorous or deprecating descriptions of the work of actors, and is similarly used to describe theatrical behavior by nonactors.

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