About The Word Feeling
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Feeling Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Feeling?
[n] the psychological feature of experiencing affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
[n] an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music" [n] a physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm" [n] the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" [n] a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" [n] the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" Synonyms | Synonyms for Feeling: belief | feel | flavor | flavour | impression | look | notion | opinion | smell | spirit | tactile sensation | tactual sensation | tone | touch | touch sensation Related Terms | Find 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| manipulation | mental attitude | mercy | milieu | mind | mitigation | mood | mystique | niceness of distinction | nicety | note | notion | observation | of soul | offset | opinion | oscillatory behavior | outlook | overcorrection of error | overdemonstrative | overshoot | overtone | palate | palpability | palpation | pardon | passion | pathos | percept | perceptibility | perception | personal judgment | persuasion | petting | pity | point of view | popular belief | position | posture | preapprehension | precognitive | premonition | presentiment | pressure | presumption | prevailing belief | process | profound sense | psychology | public belief | public opinion | quality | quarter | reaction | refined discrimination | refined palate | refinement | regard | relief | reprieve | response | response to stimuli | responsiveness | rub | rubbing | ruth | second-sighted | selectiveness | self-excitation | self-pity | sensation | sense | sense impression | sense of touch | sense perception | 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haptic sensation | heart | hope | humbleness | humility | humor | humour | hunch | idea | ingratitude | intuition | levity | liking | mood | pain | painfulness | passion | passionateness | perception | pleasance | pleasure | presence | pride | pridefulness | psychological feature | sadness | sensitiveness | sensitivity | sentiment | sex | sexual urge | shame | skin sensation | solemnity | somaesthesia | somatesthesia | somatic sensation | somesthesia | soul | soulfulness | suspicion | sympathy | temper | tenderness | thing | thought | unconcern | ungratefulness | unhappiness | warmheartedness | Zeitgeist Feeling In Webster's Dictionary \Feel"ing\, a.
1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved;
as, a feeling heart.
2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing,
sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his
wrongs.
\Feel"ing\, n. 1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused? --Milton. 2. An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. --Shak. 3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling. 4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others. --Macaulay. 5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator. --Fairholt. Syn: Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See {Emotion}, {Passion}, {Sentiment}. |
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