Underfeeling

//ˈʌndəfiːlɪŋ// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A secondary or subconscious feeling.

    "‘It is from a more general cause: simply an underfeeling I have that at the most propitious moment the distance to the possibility of sorrow is so short that a man's spirits must not rise higher than mere cheerfulness out of bare respect to his insight.’"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of underfeel form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

More examples

"‘It is from a more general cause: simply an underfeeling I have that at the most propitious moment the distance to the possibility of sorrow is so short that a man's spirits must not rise higher than mere cheerfulness out of bare respect to his insight.’"

Etymology

From under- + feeling.

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