To move is to change position or place, or to cause something else to do so. It can also mean to affect someone’s emotions strongly, or to take action in a situation.
From Old French *movoir*, from Latin *movere* “to move, set in motion, stir.” The emotional sense (“to be moved”) comes from the idea of feelings being stirred or set in motion inside a person.
We use the same verb for shifting boxes and shifting feelings: a movie can move you, just like you move a chair. That’s not an accident—ancient thinkers saw emotions as literal motions in the soul or body. English kept that metaphor so deeply that we barely notice it anymore.
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