Emoted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To convey feelings or emotions through expressive actions or words
2. To showcase one's emotional state by demonstrating feelings visibly or audibly
3. Showed or communicated feelings openly through facial expressions, gestures, or voice

Etymology: Emote is a back-formation from "emotion", which is what makes it a relatively recent verb. English first had the noun, borrowed through Middle French "emouvoir" from Vulgar Latin "exmovere", a compound of Latin "ex" (out) and "movere" (to move). So the original sense of the family is physical movement, something stirred out of place, and "emotion" meant any agitation of the mind or body before it came to name a feeling. The verb was then created by stripping the "-ion" ending from the noun, the same kind of reverse-engineering that produced verbs like "edit" from "editor". Speakers apparently treated "emotion" as if it were a verb-plus-suffix, and "emote" took on a more specific job: to display feeling outwardly rather than merely to have it. That outward, theatrical sense is why "emoted" is often used of actors, singers and anyone whose face or voice works hard to show what they feel. The past form simply follows the regular pattern of the verb it came from.

Synonyms: expressed, demonstrated, displayed, conveyed, portrayed

Antonyms: suppressed, concealed, hidden, repressed, stifled