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feeling

/ˈfiːlɪŋ/

verb

Meaning

  • (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch.

  • (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.

  • To be or become aware of.

  • To experience the consequences of.

    "Feel my wrath!"

  • To seem (through touch or otherwise).

    "It looks like wood, but it feels more like plastic."

  • To understand.

    "I don't want you back here, ya feel me?"

noun

Meaning

  • Sensation, particularly through the skin.

    "The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling."

  • Emotion; impression.

    "The house gave me a feeling of dread."

  • (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

    "You really hurt my feelings when you said that."

  • (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.

    "Many people still have feelings for their first love."

  • Intuition.

    "He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition."

  • An opinion, an attitude.

adjective

Meaning

  • Emotionally sensitive.

    "Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling."

  • Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

    "He made a feeling representation of his wrongs."