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Feeling   /fˈilɪŋ/   Listen
Feeling

noun
1.
The experiencing of affective and emotional states.  "He had terrible feelings of guilt" , "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
2.
A vague idea in which some confidence is placed.  Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion.  "What are your feelings about the crisis?" , "It strengthened my belief in his sincerity" , "I had a feeling that she was lying"
3.
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.  Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone.  "A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" , "It had the smell of treason"
4.
A physical sensation that you experience.  "I had a strange feeling in my leg" , "He lost all feeling in his arm"
5.
The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin.  Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation.  "The surface had a greasy feeling"
6.
An intuitive understanding of something.  Synonym: intuitive feeling.


Feel

verb
(past & past part. felt; pres. part. feeling)
1.
Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.  Synonym: experience.  "He felt regret"
2.
Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.  Synonym: find.  "I find him to be obnoxious" , "I found the movie rather entertaining"
3.
Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles.  Synonym: sense.  "She felt an object brushing her arm" , "He felt his flesh crawl" , "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
4.
Be conscious of a physical, mental, or emotional state.  "She felt tired after the long hike" , "She felt sad after her loss"
5.
Have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude.  "You make me feel naked" , "I made the students feel different about themselves"
6.
Undergo passive experience of:.  "Her fingers felt their way through the string quartet" , "She felt his contempt of her"
7.
Be felt or perceived in a certain way.  "The sheets feel soft"
8.
Grope or feel in search of something.
9.
Examine by touch.  Synonym: finger.  "The customer fingered the sweater"
10.
Examine (a body part) by palpation.  Synonym: palpate.  "The runner felt her pulse"
11.
Find by testing or cautious exploration.
12.
Produce a certain impression.
13.
Pass one's hands over the sexual organs of.



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"Feeling" Quotes from Famous Books



... figure glided into the slant blue rays of the shafted flame it was Hortense—the Hortense of the dreams, sweet as the child, grave as the grown woman-Hortense with closed eyes and moving lips and hands feeling out in the dark as if ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut
... much feeling at the loss which they, too, have sustained,—more than might have been expected, when it is considered that few of them are conversant with the English language, and that to those few English poetry (Byron excepted) ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various
... not keep his mind from thinking of the two girls at Allington. "He'll not marry her unless old Dale gives her something." Had it come to that with the world, that a man must be bribed into keeping his engagement with a lady? Was there no romance left among mankind,—no feeling of chivalry? "He's got another string to his bow at Courcy Castle," said the earl; and his lordship seemed to be in no degree shocked as he said it. It was in this tone that men spoke of women nowadays, and yet he himself had felt such awe of the girl he loved, and such a fear lest he might injure ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope
... the entire occurrence; feeling deeply for the inexperience which the heartless worldlings had dared to trample upon, I resolved to stand by you, and here I am come ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Vol. 2 • Charles James Lever
... morning (March 24) was dark and threatening. At 6.30 A.M. we struck into the path, a mere bush-track, the corduroys and bridges made by the Swanzy house having completely disappeared. This want of public feeling, of 'solidarity,' amongst the several mining companies should be remedied with a strong hand. These men seem not to know that rivalry may be good in buying palm-oil, but is the wrong thing in mining. Such a jealousy assisted in making the Spanish proverb 'A silver mine brings wretchedness; a ...
— To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II - A Personal Narrative • Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron


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