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Feelings

noun

1.

Emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity).

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.

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"Feelings" Quotes from Famous Books

... senior by thirty years, and had begun my addresses in a tone of fatherly affection, a feeling of shame prevented my disclosing to her the real state of my heart. Four years later she told me herself that she had guessed my real feelings, and had been amused by ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... prison-like room of my hotel, I received tidings of the death and burial of Hattie. My surroundings were in such sad accord with my feelings, that I wondered if the sun would ever shine, or the flowers bloom again, so much light went ...

— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms

... allusion Simonides bowed his head, and, as if to help him conceal his feelings and her own deep sympathy, the daughter hid her face on his neck. Directly he raised his eyes, and said, in a clear ...

— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace

... doubtful whether he is laughing in his sleeve at these Autobiographical times of ours, or writing from the abundance of his own fond ineptitude. For he continues: 'If among the ever-streaming currents of Sights, Hearings, Feelings for Pain or Pleasure, whereby, as in a Magic Hall, young Gneschen went about environed, I might venture to select and specify, perhaps these following were also ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... never spoken of his love. He knew that his marriage with Sibylla West would be so utterly distasteful to Mr. Verner, that he was content to wait. He knew that Sibylla could not mistake him—could not mistake what his feelings were; and he believed that she also was content to wait until he should be his own master and at liberty to ask for her. When that time should come, what did she intend to do with Frederick Massingbird, who made no secret to her that he loved her and expected to make her ...

— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood

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