Commuovere
Etymology
Italian verb, from Latin "commovēre," to stir up or agitate thoroughly ("com-," together, plus "movēre," to move). It describes the warm, welling response a moving story or gesture produces, and was popularized in English collections of untranslatable words.
verb · /kom-MWOH-veh-reh/
To be moved to tears by something tender, stirred in the heart until it overflows.
What it names
The specific bodily experience of being emotionally overwhelmed by beauty or poignancy, usually to the point of crying.
Example
The reunion scene was designed to commuovere, and by the end half the cinema was in tears.
Related idea
English pathos names the quality in the artwork that produces this feeling; commuovere names the feeling itself, in the body of the person moved.