10. feeling emotion or sympathetic perception revealed by an artist in his or her work: a poem without feeling.
11. feeling the general impression conveyed by a work: a painting with a romantic feeling.
12. feeling sympathetic appreciation, as of music: to play with feeling.
13. (adj.)feeling sensitive; sentient.
14. feeling readily affected by emotion; sympathetic: a feeling heart.
15. feeling indicating or characterized by emotion: a feeling reply to the charge.
Etymology: (1425–75; late ME < AF)
Definition of 'feeling'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)feeling 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. (noun)impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion 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"
3. (noun)spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell 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"
4. (noun)feeling 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"
5. (noun)touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
6. (noun)feeling, intuitive feeling an intuitive understanding of something "he had a great feeling for music"
1. (noun)feeling sth you feel a feeling of anger/happiness/fear; I had the feeling that she didn't want to talk.
2. feeling I know the feeling indicates you understand how sb feels "I think he's mad at me." "Yeah, I know the feeling."
3. feeling sb's opinion or attitude What are your feelings about the new building?
4. feeling mixed feelings some positive and some negativefeelings I have mixed feelings about him as president.
5. feeling hurt sb's feelings to upset or offend sb If you tell him you didn't like it, you'll hurt his feelings.
6. feeling the ability to feel things touching you He lost all feeling in his fingers.
Definition of 'feeling'
Webster Dictionary
1. (adj)feeling possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart
2. (adj)feeling expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs
3. (noun)feeling 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 generalnerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects
4. (noun)feeling 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
5. (noun)feeling 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