| 1. | the function or the power of perceiving by touch. |
| 2. | physical sensation not connected with sight, hearing, taste, or smell. |
| 3. | a particular sensation of this kind: a feeling of warmth; a feeling of pain. |
| 4. | the general state of consciousness considered independently of particular sensations, thoughts, etc. |
| 5. | a consciousness or vague awareness: a feeling of inferiority. |
| 6. | an emotion or emotional perception or attitude: a feeling of joy; a feeling of sorrow. |
| 7. | capacity for emotion, esp. compassion: to have great feeling for the sufferings of others. |
| 8. | a sentiment; attitude; opinion: The general feeling was in favor of the proposal. |
| 9. | feelings, sensibilities; susceptibilities: to hurt one's feelings. |
| 10. | fine emotional endowment. |
| 11. | (in music, art, etc.) | a. | emotion or sympathetic perception revealed by an artist in his or her work: a poem without feeling. | | b. | the general impression conveyed by a work: a landscape painting with a spacious feeling. | | c. | sympathetic appreciation, as of music: to play with feeling. | |
–adjective | 13. | readily affected by emotion; sympathetic: a feeling heart. |
| 14. | indicating or characterized by emotion: a feeling reply to the charge. |
Related forms:feel⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
feel⋅ing⋅ness, noun
Synonyms:
5. Feeling, emotion, passion, sentiment refer to pleasurable or painful sensations experienced when one is stirred to sympathy, anger, fear, love, grief, etc. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so overpowering that it masters the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, esp. refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment. 6. sympathy, empathy, tenderness, sensitivity, sentiment. 12. emotional, tender. 13. impassioned, passionate.
Antonyms:5, 6. apathy.
12. cold.
for where your heart is,so is your treasure...i'm not a toy.please just leave me alone...its not funny.at all...its just suffocating me.i can hardly breathe...but why does it affect me so...
