Feeling (root: feel)

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: feel=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Feeling, a. 

•  Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.  [1913 Webster]
•  Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.  [1913 Webster]

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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Why was the sight
  To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . .
  And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?"  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "The apprehension of the good
  Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind."  [1913 Webster]

  "Tenderness for the feelings of others."  [1913 Webster]
•  That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.  Fairholt.

Syn. -- Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation; opinion. See Emotion, Passion, Sentiment.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Feeling, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a the capacity to feel; a sense of touch (lost all feeling in his arm). b a physical sensation.
2 a (often foll. by of) a particular emotional reaction (a feeling of despair). b (in pl.) emotional susceptibilities or sympathies (hurt my feelings; had strong feelings about it).
3 a particular sensitivity (had a feeling for literature).
4 a an opinion or notion, esp. a vague or irrational one (my feelings on the subject; had a feeling she would be there). b vague awareness (had a feeling of safety). c sentiment (the general feeling was against it).
5 readiness to feel sympathy or compassion.
6 a the general emotional response produced by a work of art, piece of music, etc. b emotional commitment or sensibility in artistic execution (played with feeling).
--adj.
1 sensitive, sympathetic.
2 showing emotion or sensitivity.

Derivative

feelingless adj. feelingly adv.

THESAURUS

Feeling

action, affect, affection, affectional, affective, affectivity, air, ambiance, ambience, analog process, analytic, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciativeness, ardency, ardor, artistic judgment, assumption, atmosphere, attitude, aura, awareness, behavior, behavior pattern, belief, benevolence, breath, brush, caress, caressing, clairvoyant, clemency, climate, climate of opinion, commiseration, common belief, community sentiment, compassion, compassionate, conceit, concept, conception, concern, conclusion, condolence, connoisseurship, consciousness, consensus gentium, consideration, contact, conviction, critical niceness, criticalness, cutaneous sense, delicacy, demonstrative, digital process, discriminating taste, discriminatingness, discrimination, discriminativeness, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotion, emotional, emotional charge, emotional shade, emotions, emotiovascular, emotive, emotivity, empathy, estimate, estimation, ethos, examinational, examinatorial, examining, experience, explorational, explorative, exploratory, eye, fact-finding, fastidiousness, favor, feel, feeling tone, feelings, fervency, fervor, fine palate, finesse, fingering, fingertip caress, flick, forbearance, foreboding, forefeeling, forgiveness, friction, frottage, funny feeling, general belief, glance, glandular, grace, graze, groping, gut, gut reaction, hand-mindedness, handling, heartthrob, heat, heuristic, hint, humanity, humor, hunch, hunting, idea, identification, impression, imprint, indagative, inkling, input oscillation, inspectional, inspectorial, instinct, intensity, intimation, intuition, intuitional, intuitive, intuitive impression, investigational, investigative, investigatory, judgment, judiciousness, kindness, kiss, lambency, lap, leniency, lick, light touch, lights, making distinctions, manipulation, mental attitude, mercy, milieu, mind, mitigation, mood, mystique, niceness of distinction, nicety, note, notion, observation, of soul, offset, opinion, oscillatory behavior, outlook, overcorrection of error, overdemonstrative, overshoot, overtone, palate, palpability, palpation, pardon, passion, pathos, percept, perceptibility, perception, personal judgment, persuasion, petting, pity, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, preapprehension, precognitive, premonition, presentiment, pressure, presumption, prevailing belief, process, profound sense, psychology, public belief, public opinion, quality, quarter, reaction, refined discrimination, refined palate, refinement, regard, relief, reprieve, response, response to stimuli, responsiveness, rub, rubbing, ruth, second-sighted, selectiveness, self-excitation, self-pity, sensation, sense, sense impression, sense of touch, sense perception, sensibilities, sensibility, sensing, sensitive, sensitivity, sensory experience, sentient, sentiment, sight, soulful, spirit, stance, stroke, stroking, subtlety, susceptibilities, suspicion, sympathetic, sympathies, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tactile sense, taction, tangibility, tap, taste, temper, tender, tenderness, tentative, tentative poke, testing, theory, thinking, thought, tone, touch, touching, trying, undercurrent, understanding, undertone, vague feeling, vague idea, vehemence, vein, view, visceral, warmth, way of thinking, whisper, zetetic

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Feeling

Feeling

N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy), feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).

Physical Sensibility

N physical sensibility, sensibility, sensitiveness, physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics, moral sensibility, sensation, impression, consciousness, external senses, sensible, sensitive, sensuous, aesthetic, perceptive, sentient, conscious, acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned, to the quick, the touch'd needle trembles to the pole.

Touch

N touch, tact, taction, tactility, feeling, palpation, palpability, contrectation, manipulation, massage, hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna, palpus, tactual, tactile, tangible, palpable, lambent.