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 Definitions of feeling  [ˈfi lɪŋ]  

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Definition of 'feeling' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) feeling
the function or the power of perceiving by touch or by any physical sensation not connected with sight, hearing, taste, or smell.

2.  feeling
a particular sensation of this kind:
a feeling of warmth.

3.  feeling
the general state of consciousness considered independently of particular sensations, thoughts, etc.

4.  feeling
a consciousness or vague awareness:
a feeling of inferiority.

5.  feeling
an emotion or emotional perception or attitude:
a feeling of joy.

6.  feeling
capacity for emotion, esp. compassion.

7.  feeling
a sentiment; attitude; opinion:
The general feeling was in favor of the proposal.

8.  feeling
feelings, sensibilities; susceptibilities:
to hurt one's feelings.

9.  feeling
fine emotional endowment.

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"


Definition of 'feeling' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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 negative feelings
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 general nerves 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

6. (noun) feeling
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

7. (noun) feeling
that quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator

8.  feeling
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Translation of 'feeling' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: power and ability to feel
I have no feeling in my little finger.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: gevoel, sensasie Arabic flag Arabic: شُعور Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: осезание
Brazilian flag Brazilian: sensação Czech flag Czech: cit German flag German: das Gefühl
Danish flag Danish: følelse Greek flag Greek: αίσθηση Spanish flag Spanish: sensibilidad
Estonian flag Estonian: tundlikkus Farsi flag Farsi: حس Finnish flag Finnish: tuntoaisti
French flag French: sensation Hebrew flag Hebrew: תְּחוּשָׁה Hindi flag Hindi: बोध
Croatian flag Croatian: osjećaj, osjet Hungarian flag Hungarian: érzékelés Indonesian flag Indonesian: perasaan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: tilfinning Italian flag Italian: sensibilità Japanese flag Japanese: 感覚
Korean flag Korean: 촉감 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: jautrumas Latvian flag Latvian: sajūta
Malay flag Malay: perasaan Dutch flag Dutch: gevoel Norwegian flag Norwegian: følelse, fornemmelse
Polish flag Polish: czucie Persian flag Persian: حس Pashto flag Pashto: حس
Portuguese flag Portuguese: sensação Romanian flag Romanian: simţ Russian flag Russian: чувствительность
Slovak flag Slovak: cit Slovenian flag Slovenian: občutljivost Serbian flag Serbian: osećaj
Swedish flag Swedish: känsel Thai flag Thai: ความรู้สึก Turkish flag Turkish: his, duyu
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 感覺 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: відчуття Urdu flag Urdu: محسوس کرنے کی قدرت یا فطر
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cảm giác Chinese flag Chinese: 感觉

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