Feeling

['fiːlɪŋ] or ['filɪŋ]

Definition

(noun.) the experiencing of affective and emotional states; 'she had a feeling of euphoria'; 'he had terrible feelings of guilt'; 'I disliked him and the feeling was mutual'.

(noun.) an intuitive understanding of something; 'he had a great feeling for music'.

(noun.) 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'.

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Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feel

(a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

(a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Affecting, moving, touching, melting, pathetic.[2]. Sensitive, tender.

n. [1]. Sense of touch.[2]. Sensation, perception by touch.[3]. Sensibility, emotion, sentiment, passion, affection, impression.[4]. Tenderness, susceptibility.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Touch, sensation, contact, pathos, tenderness, impression, consciousness,sensibility, emotion, sentiment, passion, sensitiveness

ANT:Insensibility, callousness, Imperturbability, inexcitable_ty, coldness,insensateness

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