The word "emotion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an intense feeling, either positive or negative, that is experienced by someone. Example sentence: I could feel the deep emotion of love emanating from his eyes.
"The main emotion is one of sadness for Mick because he's a wonderful coach who has really been put through the ringer," he said.
Not even the emotion of Hayes' departure will stop the Saints from being grappled into submission at home against Fremantle.
Their emotion was visible on their faces when they walked on stage after Romney finished his remarks, which Romney had hastily composed, knowing he had to say something.
According to Matthew Dennison in the Times: "What exonerates this structurally imperfect book is its tangible emotion: John's grief as he witnesses Mary's 'disappearance' and the author's intense love for the county of his birth".
But where is the emotion in droning on about pension provision; about currency exchanges, about whether an independent Scotland will have to put VAT on books or have its own film licensing commission?
In his temperamental war with emotion, reason lost.
"If you can think instead of being disabled with emotion, then you win.
There are different levels of altruistic behaviour until you reach the higher spheres of thought and emotion which only humans are capable of.
Memory is a strange and unreliable thing, shaped often by a vignette, captured in a scent, a sound, a shard of emotion rather than factual detail.
It makes the story seem more realistic and that is what makes the book even better to read and it makes you feel the emotion that she feels.
This was just one emotion I felt during my shoemaking odyssey.
