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Dictionary > Definition: feeling

Definition of feeling
  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"
  2. an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"
  3. 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"
  4. the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
  5. 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"
  6. 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"
Similar Words: intuitive feeling, touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, impression, belief, notion, opinion, spirit, tone, feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell

Hyponyms: affect, emotion, thing, glow, soul, soulfulness, passion, passionateness, sentiment, complex, ambivalence, ambivalency, apathy, desire, pleasure, pleasance, pain, painfulness, pang, stab, twinge, liking, dislike, gratitude, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unconcern, shame, pride, pridefulness, humility, humbleness, astonishment, amazement, devastation, expectation, levity, gravity, solemnity, sensitivity, sensitiveness, agitation, calmness, fearlessness, bravery, happiness, sadness, unhappiness, hope, despair, affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmheartedness, temper, mood, humor, humour, sympathy, fellow feeling, enthusiasm, sprachgefuhl, constriction, cutaneous sensation, haptic sensation, skin sensation, presence, effect, first blush, intuition, hunch, suspicion, Hollywood, Zeitgeist

Derivational Morphology: feel, experience, sense, finger, touch, believe, trust, find, look, appear, seem, spirit, spirit up, inspirit, spiritize, spiritise


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