Feeling

Feel´ing

a.	1.	Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
	2.	Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
n.	1.	The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects. Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused? - Milton.
	2.	An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness. The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. - Shak.
	3.	The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
	4.	Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. - Garrick. Tenderness for the feelings of others. - Macaulay.
	5.	That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

Noun	1.	feeling - 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"
	2.	feeling - 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" Synonyms: impression, notion, belief, opinion
	3.	feeling - 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" Synonyms: flavor, flavour, feel, spirit, smell, look, tone
	4.	feeling - 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.	feeling - the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch sensation, touch
	6.	feeling - an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music" Synonyms: intuitive feeling

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