—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.
to have a sensation of (something), other than by sight, hearing, taste, or smell: to feel a toothache.
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to find or pursue (one's way) by touching, groping, or cautious moves.
4.
to be or become conscious of.
5.
to be emotionally affected by: to feel one's disgrace keenly.
6.
to experience the effects of: The whole region felt the storm.
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to have a particular sensation or impression of (often used reflexively and usually fol. by an adjunct or complement): to feel oneself slighted.
8.
to have a general or thorough conviction of; think; believe: I feel he's guilty.
–verb (used without object)
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to have perception by touch or by any nerves of sensation other than those of sight, hearing, taste, and smell.
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to make examination by touch; grope.
11.
to perceive a state of mind or a condition of body: to feel happy; to feel well.
12.
to have a sensation of being: to feel warm.
13.
to make itself perceived or apparent; seem: How does it feel to be rich?
–noun
14.
a quality of an object that is perceived by feeling or touching: the soft feel of cotton.
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a sensation of something felt; a vague mental impression or feeling: a feel of winter; a feel of sadness in the air.
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the sense of touch: soft to the feel.
17.
native ability or acquired sensitivity: to have a feel for what is right.
18.
Informal. an act or instance of touching with the hand or fingers.
19.
Slang:Vulgar. an act or instance of feeling up.
—Verb phrases
20.
feel for,
a.
to feel sympathy for or compassion toward; empathize with: I know you're disappointed and upset, and I feel for you.
b.
Southeastern Pennsylvania and Maryland. to have a liking or desire for: If you feel for more pie, just help yourself.
21.
feel out, to attempt to ascertain (the nature of a situation, someone's attitude, etc.) by indirect or subtle means: Why not feel out the other neighbors' opinions before you make a complaint.
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feel up, Slang:Vulgar. to fondle or touch (someone) in a sexual manner.
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feel up to, Informal. to feel or be able to; be capable of: He didn't feel up to going to the theater so soon after his recent illness.
—Idioms
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cop a feel, Slang:Vulgar. to touch another person's body sexually, often in a quick and surreptitious way.
25.
feel like, Informal. to have a desire for; be favorably disposed to: I don't feel like going out tonight. Do you feel like a movie?
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feel like oneself, to be in one's usual frame of mind or state of health: She hasn't been feeling like herself since the accident. Also, feel oneself.
To undergo the experience of: felt my interest rising; felt great joy.
To be aware of; sense: felt the anger of the crowd.
To be emotionally affected by: She still feels the loss of her dog.
To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
To test or explore with caution: feel one's way in a new job.
To undergo the experience of: felt my interest rising; felt great joy.
To be aware of; sense: felt the anger of the crowd.
To be emotionally affected by: She still feels the loss of her dog.
To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
To be persuaded of (something) on the basis of intuition, emotion, or other indefinite grounds: I feel that what the informant says may well be true.
To believe; think: She felt his answer to be evasive.
v.
intr.
To experience sensations of touch.
To produce a particular sensation, especially through the sense of touch: The sheets felt smooth.
To produce a particular impression; appear to be; seem: It feels good to be home. See Usage Note at well2.
To be conscious of a specified kind or quality of physical, mental, or emotional state: felt warm and content; feels strongly about the election.
To seek or explore something by the sense of touch: felt for the light switch in the dark.
To have compassion or sympathy: I feel for him in his troubles.
n.
Perception by or as if by touch; sensation: a feel of autumn in the air.
The sense of touch: a surface that is rough to the feel.
An act or instance of touching or feeling.
Vulgar An act or instance of sexual touching or fondling.
The nature or quality of something as perceived by or as if by the sense of touch: "power steering that seems overassisted, eliminating road feel"(Mark Ginsburg).
Overall impression or effect; atmosphere: "gives such disparate pictures . . . a crazily convincing documentary feel"(Stephen King).
Intuitive awareness or natural ability: has a feel for decorating.
Phrasal Verb(s): feel out
To try cautiously or indirectly to ascertain the viewpoint or nature of.
feel up Vulgar
To touch or fondle (someone) sexually.
Idiom(s):
feel in (one's) bones
To have an intuition of.
Idiom(s):
feel like Informal
To have an inclination or desire for: felt like going for a walk.
Idiom(s):
feel like (oneself)
To sense oneself as being in one's normal state of health or spirits: I just don't feel like myself today.
Idiom(s):
feel (one's) oats
To be energetic and playful.
To act in a self-important manner.
[Middle English felen, from Old English fēlan; see pāl- in Indo-European roots.]
An emotional state or disposition; an emotion: expressed deep feeling.
A tender emotion; a fondness.
Capacity to experience the higher emotions; sensitivity; sensibility: a man of feeling.
feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities: The child's feelings are easily hurt.
Appreciative regard or understanding: a feeling for propriety.
Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel: has a feeling for language.
An affective state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments, or desires: experienced a feeling of excitement.
An awareness or impression: He had the feeling that he was being followed.
An emotional state or disposition; an emotion: expressed deep feeling.
A tender emotion; a fondness.
Capacity to experience the higher emotions; sensitivity; sensibility: a man of feeling.
feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities: The child's feelings are easily hurt.
Appreciative regard or understanding: a feeling for propriety.
Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel: has a feeling for language.
Capacity to experience the higher emotions; sensitivity; sensibility: a man of feeling.
feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities: The child's feelings are easily hurt.
Appreciative regard or understanding: a feeling for propriety.
Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel: has a feeling for language.
Opinion based more on emotion than on reason; sentiment.
A general impression conveyed by a person, place, or thing: The stuffy air gave one the feeling of being in a tomb.
Appreciative regard or understanding: a feeling for propriety.
Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel: has a feeling for language.
adj.
Having the ability to react or feel emotionally; sentient; sensitive.
Easily moved emotionally; sympathetic: a feeling heart.
Expressive of sensibility or emotion: a feeling glance.
feel'ing·ly adv.
Synonyms: These nouns refer to complex and usually strong subjective human response. Although feeling and emotion are sometimes interchangeable, feeling is the more general and neutral: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" (William Wordsworth).
Emotion often implies the presence of excitement or agitation: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" (T.S. Eliot).
Passion is intense, compelling emotion: "They seemed like ungoverned children inflamed with the fiercest passions of men" (Francis Parkman).
Sentiment often applies to a thought or opinion arising from or influenced by emotion: We expressed our sentiments about the government's policies.
The word can also refer to delicate, sensitive, or higher or more refined feelings: "The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people" (Walter Bagehot). See Also Synonyms at opinion.
the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
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a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" [syn: impression]
3.
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit]
4.
a physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm"
5.
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" [syn: touch]
6.
an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music"
E*mo"tion\, n. [L. emovere, emotum, to remove, shake, stir up; e out + movere to move: cf. F. ['e]motion. See Move, and cf. Emmove.] A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the body. How different the emotions between departure and return! --W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. --Tennyson. Syn: Feeling; agitation; tremor; trepidation; perturbation; passion; excitement. Usage: Emotion, Feeling, Agitation. Feeling is the weaker term, and may be of the body or the mind. Emotion is of the mind alone, being the excited action of some inward susceptibility or feeling; as, an emotion of pity, terror, etc. Agitation may the bodily or mental, and usually arises in the latter case from a vehement struggle between contending desires or emotions. See Passion. "Agitations have but one character, viz., that of violence; emotions vary with the objects that awaken them. There are emotions either of tenderness or anger, either gentle or strong, either painful or pleasing." --Crabb.
Feel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Felt; p. pr. & vb. n. Feeling.] [AS. f?lan; akin to OS. gif?lian to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. f["u]hlen, Icel. f[=a]lma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, L. palma. Cf. Fumble, Palm.]1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs. Who feel Those rods of scorpions and those whips of steel. --Creecn. 2. To touch; to handle; to examine by touching; as, feel this piece of silk; hence, to make trial of; to test; often with out. Come near, . . . that I may feel thee, my son. --Gen. xxvii. 21. He hath this to feel my affection to your honor. --Shak. 3. To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain. Teach me to feel another's woe. --Pope. Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing. --Eccl. viii. 5. He best can paint them who shall feel them most. --Pope. Mankind have felt their strength and made it felt. --Byron. 4. To take internal cognizance of; to be conscious of; to have an inward persuasion of. For then, and not till then, he felt himself. --Shak. 5. To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.
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