sensitive, perceptive; full of emotion; sympathetic
sensation; perception; emotion; pity, compassion
physically sense; emotionally sense; examine by touching; find one's way by touch, grope; believe, think; seem
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feeling
\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.
feeling
\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?
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.
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. tenderness for the feelings of others.
5. that quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
similar words(1)
feeling of movement
Gobrwyaeth = n. act of feeling
Syn = n. feeling, preception, a. sensible; concerned; amazed
Syniad = n. sensation, feeling
Teimladwy = a. sensible, feeling
Noun
1. 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"
(hypernym) psychological feature
(hyponym) affect
(derivation) feel, experience
2. 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"
(synonym) impression, belief, notion, opinion
(hypernym) idea, thought
(hyponym) presence
(derivation) find, feel
3. 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"
(synonym) spirit, tone, feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell
(hypernym) atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
(hyponym) Hollywood
(derivation) feel
4. 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"
(hypernym) somesthesia, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation
(hyponym) constriction
(derivation) feel, sense
5. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
(synonym) touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation
(hypernym) perception
(hyponym) cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation
(derivation) feel, finger
6. an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"
(synonym) intuitive feeling
(hypernym) intuition
(hyponym) sprachgefuhl
Noun
1. an intuitive awareness; "he has a feel for animals" or "it's easy when you get the feel of it";
(hypernym) awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness
(derivation) find
2. 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"
(synonym) spirit, tone, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
(hypernym) atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
(hyponym) Hollywood
3. a property perceived by touch
(synonym) tactile property
(hypernym) property
(hyponym) touch
(derivation) palpate
4. manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure; "the girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"
(hypernym) foreplay, arousal, stimulation
Verb
1. undergo an emotional sensation; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret"
(synonym) experience
(hyponym) recapture
(see-also) feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with
(derivation) feelings
2. come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
(synonym) find
(hypernym) reason, reason out, conclude
(verb-group) rule, find
3. perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car"
(synonym) sense
(hypernym) perceive, comprehend
(derivation) tactile property
4. seem with respect to a given sensation given; "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) feel like a million, feel like a million dollars
5. have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude; "She felt small and insignificant"; "You make me feel naked"; "I made the students feel different about themselves"
(hypernym) think, believe, consider, conceive
(derivation) feelings
6. undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"; "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"; "she felt his contempt of her"
(hypernym) experience, undergo, see, go through
(derivation) spirit, tone, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
7. be felt or perceived in a certain way; "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"
(hypernym) look, appear, seem
(hyponym) crawl
(verb-group) sense
(derivation) spirit, tone, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
8. grope or feel in search of something; "He felt for his wallet"
(hypernym) search, seek, look for
(hyponym) grope for, scrabble
(entail) touch
(verb-group) finger
(derivation) tactile property
9. examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
(synonym) finger
(entail) touch
(derivation) barbel, feeler
10. examine (a body part) by palpation; "The nurse palpated the patient's stomach"; "The runner felt her pulse"
(synonym) palpate
(hypernym) touch
(derivation) tactile property
(classification) medicine, practice of medicine
11. find by testing or cautious exploration; "He felt his way around the dark room"
(hypernym) find, regain
(derivation) barbel, feeler
12. produce a certain impression; "It feels nice to be home again"
(hypernym) look, appear, seem
(derivation) spirit, tone, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell
13. pass one's hands over the sexual organs of; "He felt the girl in the movie theater"
(hypernym) touch
(classification) cant, jargon, slang, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
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Feeling Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences, other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth".
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