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Feeling
//ˈfi.lɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Emotionally sensitive.
"Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling."
- 2 Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
"He made a feeling representation of his wrongs."
Noun
- 1 Sensation, particularly through the skin.
"The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling."
- 2 the experiencing of affective and emotional states wordnet
- 3 Emotion; impression.
"The house gave me a feeling of dread."
- 4 an intuitive understanding of something wordnet
- 5 Emotional state or well-being.
"You really hurt my feelings when you said that."
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- 6 a physical sensation that you experience wordnet
- 7 Emotional attraction or desire. plural-normally
"Many people still have feelings for their first love."
- 8 the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin wordnet
- 9 Intuition.
"He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition."
- 10 a vague idea in which some confidence is placed wordnet
- 11 An opinion, an attitude.
"When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away."
- 12 the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of feel form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
Etymology 3
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
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