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Meaning of 'feeling' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Feeling [ a.]
- Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
- Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
2 . Feeling [ 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
3 . Feeling [ p. pr. & vb. n.]
- of Feel

Meaning of 'feeling' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . feeling [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Example in sentence:
  • a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting;
  • it had the smell of treason;
  • the feel of the city excited him
Meaning (2):
- an intuitive understanding of something
Example in sentence:
  • he had a great feeling for music
Meaning (3):
- a physical sensation that you experience
Example in sentence:
  • he had a queasy feeling;
  • he lost all feeling in his arm;
  • I had a strange feeling in my leg
Meaning (4):
- the experiencing of affective and emotional states
Example in sentence:
  • he had terrible feelings of guilt;
  • I disliked him and the feeling was mutual;
  • she had a feeling of euphoria
Meaning (5):
- a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
Example in sentence:
  • his impression of her was favorable;
  • I had a feeling that she was lying;
  • it strengthened my belief in his sincerity;
  • what are your feelings about the crisis?
Meaning (6):
- the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
Example in sentence:
  • she likes the touch of silk on her skin;
  • the surface had a greasy feeling

Nearby Words:

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