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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

expression émotionnelle

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ɛk.spʁɛ.sjɔ̃ e.mɔ.sjɔ.nɛl

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Emotional Expression/ɪˈmoʊ.ʃən.əl ɪkˈsprɛʃ.ən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Son expression émotionnelle était particulièrement touchante."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The observable outward manifestation of an internal feeling, emotion, or affective state through facial expressions, vocal cues, body language, or words.

    "Her emotional expression clearly conveyed her immense gratitude after winning the award."
  2. 2

    In psychology and communication, the behavioral output that communicates subjective experiences to others.

    "Cross-cultural studies show that basic patterns of emotional expression are universally recognized."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'emotional', derived from Latin 'emovere' (to move out, stir up), via French 'émotion', and 'expression', from Latin 'expressio', from 'exprimere' (to squeeze out, depict). Together in modern psychological and linguistic discourse, it represents the outward manifestation of internal affective states through verbal, vocal, and bodily signs.

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