feeling
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feel·ing
(fē'lĭng) 
n.
n.
- The sensation involving perception by touch.
- A sensation experienced through touch.
- A physical sensation: a feeling of warmth.
- An affective state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments, or desires: experienced a feeling of excitement.
- An awareness or impression: He had the feeling that he was being followed.
- An emotional state or disposition; an emotion: expressed deep feeling.
- A tender emotion; a fondness.
- Capacity to experience the higher emotions; sensitivity; sensibility: a man of feeling.
- feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities: The child's feelings are easily hurt.
- Opinion based more on emotion than on reason; sentiment.
- A general impression conveyed by a person, place, or thing: The stuffy air gave one the feeling of being in a tomb.
- Appreciative regard or understanding: a feeling for propriety.
- Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel: has a feeling for language.
- Having the ability to react or feel emotionally; sentient; sensitive.
- Easily moved emotionally; sympathetic: a feeling heart.
- Expressive of sensibility or emotion: a feeling glance.
SYNONYMS feeling, emotion, passion, sentiment. These nouns refer to complex and usually strong subjective human response. Although feeling and emotion are sometimes interchangeable, feeling is the more general and neutral: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" (William Wordsworth). Emotion often implies the presence of excitement or agitation: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" (T.S. Eliot). Passion is intense, compelling emotion: "They seemed like ungoverned children inflamed with the fiercest passions of men" (Francis Parkman). Sentiment often applies to a thought or opinion arising from or influenced by emotion: We expressed our sentiments about the government's policies. The word can also refer to delicate, sensitive, or higher or more refined feelings: "The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people" (Walter Bagehot). See also synonyms at opinion.
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feeling
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- A particular sensation conveyed by means of physical contact: feel, touch. See touch/not touch.
- The faculty or ability to perceive tactile stimulation: feel, tactility, touch. See touch/not touch.
- An act of touching: palpation, touch. See touch/not touch.
- The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: sensation, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See awareness/unawareness.
- A general cast of mind with regard to something: attitude, sentiment. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.
- A complex and usually strong subjective response, such as love or hate: affection, affectivity, emotion, sentiment. See feelings.
- The quality or condition of being emotionally and intuitively sensitive: sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity. See awareness/unawareness.
- Something believed or accepted as true by a person: belief, conviction, idea, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, sentiment, view. See opinion.
- A general impression produced by a predominant quality or characteristic: air, ambiance, atmosphere, aura, feel, mood, smell, tone. See be.
- Intuitive cognition: hunch, idea, impression, intuition, suspicion. See thoughts.
adjective
- Cognizant of and comprehending the needs, feelings, problems, and views of others: empathetic, empathic, sympathetic, understanding. See understand/misunderstand.
- Readily stirred by emotion: emotional, sensitive. See feelings.
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feeling
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Definition: idea, impression
Antonyms: concrete, solid, thing
n
Definition: sense of touch
Antonyms: insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness
n
Definition: state of mind
Antonyms: insensibility, numbness
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An affective experience reported by the individual as pleasantness, unpleasantness, excitement, calmness, sadness, happiness, etc.
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feeling
IN BRIEF: A physical sensation that you experience.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
— Thomas Szasz.
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- Intuition and Imagination - feeling: intuitive sense separate from rational process
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Feeling
This article is about the perception or emotion. For the band, see The Feeling. For other uses, see Feelings.
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".[1]
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In psychology, the word is usually reserved for the conscious subjective experience of emotion.[2] Phenomenology and heterophenomenology are philosophical approaches that provide some basis for knowledge of feelings. Many schools of psychotherapy depend on the therapist achieving some kind of understanding of the client's feelings, for which methodologies exist. Some theories of interpersonal relationships also have a role for shared feelings or understanding of another person's feelings.[citation needed]
Perception of the physical world does not necessarily result in a universal reaction among receivers (see emotions), but varies depending on one's tendency to handle the situation, how the situation relates to the receiver's past experiences, and any number of other factors. Feelings are also known as a state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments or desires.
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Gut feeling
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A gut feeling, or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something, and often one of uneasiness. Gut feelings are generally regarded as not modulated by conscious thought, and as a reflection of intuition rather than rationality. They are thought to originate from the brain's insular cortex.
The phrase "gut feeling" may also be used as a short-hand term for an individual's "common sense" perception of what is considered "the right thing to do"; such as: helping an injured passerby, avoiding dark alleys and generally acting in accordance with instinctive feelings about a given situation. It can also refer to simple common knowledge phrases which are true no matter when said, such as "Water is wet", "Fire is hot", or to ideas that an individual intuitively regards as true, without proof (see "Truthiness" for examples).
Gut feelings, like all reflexive unconscious comparisons, can be re-programmed by practice or experience.
See also
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Wikisource has the text of the 1921 Collier's Encyclopedia article Feeling. |
- Affect or Affective
- Feelings
- Emotion
- Feeling rules
- Intuition
- The Rational Feeling Function in Jung's Psychological Types
- Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Qualia
- Sensation (psychology)
- Touch
- Haptics (disambiguation)
- Vedanā, the Buddhist concept of feeling
Footnotes
- ^ feeling - Dictionary definition and pronunciation - Yahoo! Education
- ^ VandenBos, Gary (2006) APA Dictionary of Psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
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Feeling
Dansk (Danish)
n. - følelse, medfølelse, mening, stemning
adj. - som kan føle, følende
idioms:
- a feeling for sans for
- a feeling of fornemmelse af
- know the feeling kende fornemmelsen
- mixed feelings blandede følelser
- no hard feelings intet nag
Nederlands (Dutch)
gevoel, voorgevoel, sfeer, emotie, het voelen, gevoelig, meelevend
Français (French)
n. - fait de tâter, toucher, sensation, sentiment, sensibilité
adj. - sensible
idioms:
- a feeling for un faible pour, des sentiments pour
- a feeling of un sentiment de, une sensation de
- know the feeling connaître la sensation
- mixed feelings sentiments mitigés
- no hard feelings ne pas avoir de rancune
Deutsch (German)
n. - Gefühl, Ansicht, Empfindung
adj. - fühlend, mitfühlend, einfühlsam
idioms:
- a feeling for ein Gefühl für
- a feeling of Gefühl der/des
- know the feeling das Gefühl kennen
- mixed feelings gemischte Gefühle
- no hard feelings (kein) Groll, nimm es mir nicht übel
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αίσθηση, αίσθημα, αφή, ψηλάφηση, ευαισθησία, συγκίνηση, εντύπωση, αντίληψη, πάθος, προαίσθημα
idioms:
- a feeling for ιδιαίτερη ευαισθησία, κατανόηση, αίσθηση
- a feeling of αίσθηση
- know the feeling ξέρω πώς νιώθεις
- mixed feelings ανάμικτα αισθήματα
- no hard feelings μη μου κρατάς κακία
Italiano (Italian)
sentimento, senso, sensazione, emozione, tatto, intuizione
idioms:
- (No) hard feelings senza offesa
- a feeling for un debole per
- feeling of un senso di
- know the feeling sapere che cosa vuol dire
- mixed feelings sentimenti contrastanti
Português (Portuguese)
n. - sentimento (m)
idioms:
- (no) hard feelings sem mágoas
- a feeling for tato (m)
- feeling of sensação de
- know the feeling conhecer os sentimentos de
- mixed feelings opiniões (f pl) conflitantes
Русский (Russian)
ощущение, чувство, сознание, предчувствие, мнение, впечатление
idioms:
- (no) hard feelings без обиды
- a feeling for чутье, понимание
- feeling of чувство
- know the feeling сочувствую
- mixed feelings смешанные чувства
Español (Spanish)
n. - tacto, impresión, sensación, emoción, sentimiento, sentido del tacto, intuición, presentimiento, sentimientos
adj. - sensible, tierno, conmovedor
idioms:
- a feeling for tener sensibilidad, tener sentido
- a feeling of sentimiento de, sensación de
- know the feeling conocer la sensación, saber por experiencia
- mixed feelings sentimientos enfrentados
- no hard feelings sin resquemores, (sin) rencor, (sin) resentimiento
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - känsel, känsla, uppfattning, uppståndelse, atmosfär
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
感觉, 同情, 情绪, 有同情心的, 仁慈的, 有感觉的
idioms:
- a feeling for 对...同情
- a feeling of ...的感觉
- know the feeling 了解那个感觉
- mixed feelings 怀着矛盾的感情
- no hard feelings 没有反感
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 感覺, 同情, 情緒
adj. - 有同情心的, 仁慈的, 有感覺的
idioms:
- a feeling for 對...同情
- a feeling of ...的感覺
- know the feeling 了解那個感覺
- mixed feelings 懷著矛盾的感情
- no hard feelings 沒有反感
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 촉감, 감각, 기분, 생각, 연민
adj. - 감각이 있는, 인정 어린
idioms:
- a feeling for ~에 감수성 있는
- a feeling of ~에 예감
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 触感, 感覚, 知覚, 手ざわり, 感受性, センス, 感情, 感じ, 意見, 興奮, 同情, 印象
adj. - 感覚のある, 感じやすい
idioms:
- a feeling for 感受性, センス
- feeling of 感情
- sinking feeling 虚脱感
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) إحساس,
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - תחושה, רגש, הרגשה, התמרמרות, התרגשות, מודעות מעורפלת, נכונות לחוש אהדה או חמלה
adj. - מלא-רגש, רגיש
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