Meanings
adjectivefeeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)
comparative more feeling · superlative most feeling
- 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.
nounfeeling (plural feelings)
plural feelings
- Emotion; impression.
The house gave me a feeling of dread.
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Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31 - plural normallyEmotional attraction or desire.
Many people still have feelings for their first love.
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You can kiss a hundred boys in bars Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling You can say it's just the way you are Make a new excuse, another stupid reason
2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan - Intuition.
I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
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He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you
1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of feel
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna vague idea in which some confidence is placed
nounthe general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
Broader
nounthe sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishfelynge
- Englishfeeling
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans gevoelig, sensitief
- gevoeligemotionally sensitive
- sensitiefemotionally sensitive
- gevoelsensation
- sensasiesensation
- emosieemotion; impression
- gevoelemotion; impression
- emosiesin plural: emotional state or well-being
- gevoelensin plural: emotional state or well-being
- gevoelensin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- intuïsieintuition
- voorgevoelintuition
Ancient Greek πάθος
- πάθος (páthos)emotion; impression
Arabic شُعُور, إِحْسَاس
- شُعُور (šuʕūr)sensation
- إِحْسَاس (ʔiḥsās)sensation
- عَاطِفَة (ʕāṭifa)emotion; impression
- إِحْسَاس (ʔiḥsās)emotion; impression
Bengali আবেগ
- আবেগ (abeg)sensation
Bulgarian чу́вство, усе́щане
- чу́вство (čúvstvo)sensation
- усе́щане (uséštane)sensation
- осеза́ние (osezánie)sensation
- чу́вство (čúvstvo)emotion; impression
- емо́ция (emócija)emotion; impression
- чу́вства (čúvstva)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- чу́вства (čúvstva)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- усе́щане (uséštane)intuition
Catalan sentimental, sensació
- sentimentalemotionally sensitive
- sensaciósensation
- sentimentemotion; impression
- intuïcióintuition
- pressentimentintuition
Chinese Cantonese 感覺 /感觉, 感情
- 感覺 /感觉 (gam² gok³)sensation
- 感情 (gam² cing⁴)emotion; impression
Chinese Mandarin 感覺 /感觉, 感情
- 感覺 /感觉 (gǎnjué)sensation
- 感情 (gǎnqíng)emotion; impression
- 戀 /恋 (liàn)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
Czech pocit, cit
- pocitsensation
- citemotion; impression
- cityin plural: emotional state or well-being
- pocitintuition
Danish følelse
- følelsesensation
Dutch gevoelig, gevoel
- gevoeligemotionally sensitive
- gevoelsensation
- gevoelemotion; impression
- emotieemotion; impression
- gevoelensin plural: emotional state or well-being
- gevoelensin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- voorgevoelintuition
Esperanto sentema, sento
- sentemaemotionally sensitive
- sentosensation
- sentoemotion; impression
- emocioemotion; impression
- impresoemotion; impression
- opinioemotion; impression
- sentojin plural: emotional state or well-being
- emociojin plural: emotional state or well-being
- amsentoin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- sentemecointuition
- natura talentointuition
Estonian tunne, meeleolu
- tunnesensation
- meeleoluemotion; impression
- tunnein plural: emotional state or well-being
Finnish tunteellinen, herkkä
- tunteellinenemotionally sensitive
- herkkäemotionally sensitive
- tunnesensation
- tuntemussensation
- tuntusensation
- olosensation
- tunneemotion; impression
- tuntemusemotion; impression
- tunteetin plural: emotional state or well-being
- tunteetin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- tunneintuition
French sentimental, sensation
- sentimentalemotionally sensitive
- sensationsensation
- sentimentemotion; impression
- émotionemotion; impression
- sentimentsin plural: emotional state or well-being
- sentimentsin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- sentimentintuition
- intuitionintuition
- impressionintuition
German einfühlsam, gefühlvoll
- einfühlsamemotionally sensitive
- gefühlvollemotionally sensitive
- Gefühlsensation
- Gefühlemotion; impression
- Emotionemotion; impression
- Gefühlein plural: emotional state or well-being
- Gefühlein plural: emotional attraction or desire
- Gefühlintuition
Greek αίσθηση, συναίσθημα
- αίσθηση (aísthisi)sensation
- συναίσθημα (synaísthima)emotion; impression
- συναίσθημα (synaísthima)in plural: emotional state or well-being
Hebrew רָגִישׁ, רְגִישָׁה
- רָגִישׁ (ragísh)emotionally sensitive
- רְגִישָׁה (regisha)emotionally sensitive
- הַרְגָּשָׁה (hargashá)sensation
- תְּחוּשָׁה (tẖushá)sensation
- הַרְגָּשָׁה (hargashá)emotion; impression
- רֶגֶשׁ (régesh)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- רְגָשׁוֹת (r'gashót)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- רֶגֶשׁ (régesh)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- רְגָשׁוֹת (r'gashót)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- הַרְגָּשָׁה (hargasha)intuition
Hindi एहसास, हिस
- एहसास (ehsās)sensation
- हिस (his)sensation
- जज़्बात (jazbāt)emotion; impression
- भावना (bhāvnā)emotion; impression
- ख़याल (xayāl)intuition
Hungarian érző, együttérző
- érzőemotionally sensitive
- együttérzőemotionally sensitive
- érzéssensation
- érzékeléssensation
- érzelememotion; impression
- érzésemotion; impression
- érzésekin plural: emotional state or well-being
- érzelmekin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- megérzésintuition
- intuícióintuition
Icelandic tilfinning, tilfinningar
- tilfinningsensation
- tilfinningarin plural: emotional state or well-being
- tilfinningarin plural: emotional attraction or desire
Indonesian perasaan
- perasaansensation
Italian senso, sensazione
- sensosensation
- sensazionesensation
- sentimentoemotion; impression
- emozioneemotion; impression
- urtare la suscettibiltàin plural: emotional state or well-being
- ferire i sentimentiin plural: emotional state or well-being
- emozioniin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- sensazioniin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- intuitointuition
- tattointuition
Japanese 敏感な, 感覚
- 敏感な (binkan na)emotionally sensitive
- 感覚 (kankaku)sensation
- 感情 (kanjō)emotion; impression
- 気 (ki)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- 恋 (koi)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- 直感 (chokkan)intuition
Korean 민감한, 감각
- 민감한 (min'gamhan)emotionally sensitive
- 감각 (gamgak)sensation
- 느낌 (neukkim)sensation
- 감정 (gamjeong)emotion; impression
- 기 (gi)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- 연 (yeon)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- 련 (ryeon)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
Latin sensus
- sensusemotion; impression
Latvian sajūta, jūtas
- sajūtasensation
- jūtassensation
- jūtasemotion; impression
- emocijaemotion; impression
Lithuanian pojūtis, jutimas
- pojūtissensation
- jutimassensation
- jausmasemotion; impression
- emocijaemotion; impression
Malay perasaan, hati
- perasaansensation
- hatiemotion; impression
Māori kōhengihengi, kōhengi
- kōhengihengiemotion; impression
- kōhengiemotion; impression
- aurongoemotion; impression
Norwegian Bokmål følsom, følelse
- følsomemotionally sensitive
- følelsesensation
- følelseemotion; impression
- følelserin plural: emotional state or well-being
- følelserin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- følelseintuition
Polish uczucie, uczucie
- uczuciesensation
- uczucieemotion; impression
- uczuciein plural: emotional state or well-being
- uczuciain plural: emotional state or well-being
- uczuciein plural: emotional attraction or desire
- uczucieintuition
Portuguese sentimental, emotivo
- sentimentalemotionally sensitive
- emotivoemotionally sensitive
- sensívelemotionally sensitive
- sensaçãosensation
- emoçãoemotion; impression
- impressãoemotion; impression
- sentimentoemotion; impression
- sentimentosin plural: emotional state or well-being
- sentimentos m pl por...in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- intuiçãointuition
- idéiaintuition
- pressentimentointuition
Romanian sentimental, sentiment
- sentimentalemotionally sensitive
- sentimentsensation
- sentimentesensation
- simțământsensation
- sentimentemotion; impression
- sentimenteemotion; impression
Russian чувстви́тельный, ощуще́ние
- чувстви́тельный (čuvstvítelʹnyj)emotionally sensitive
- ощуще́ние (oščuščénije)sensation
- чу́вство (čúvstvo)sensation
- чу́вство (čúvstvo)emotion; impression
- эмо́ция (emócija)emotion; impression
- го́рдость (górdostʹ)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- самолю́бие (samoljúbije)in plural: emotional state or well-being
- симпа́тия (simpátija)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- чу́вство (čúvstvo)in plural: emotional attraction or desire
- предчу́вствие (predčúvstvije)intuition
Scottish Gaelic faireachdainn, faireachdainn
- faireachdainnsensation
- faireachdainnemotion; impression
Slovak pocit
- pocitsensation
Spanish sentimental, sensación
- sentimentalemotionally sensitive
- sensaciónsensation
- sentimientoemotion; impression
- emociónemotion; impression
- impresiónemotion; impression
- sentimientosin plural: emotional state or well-being
- sentimientosin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- sentir algo porin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- sentir afección porin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- tener sentimientos porin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- intuiciónintuition
- presentimientointuition
- corazonadaintuition
Swedish känslig, känsligt
- känsligemotionally sensitive
- känsligtemotionally sensitive
- sensationsensation
- känslasensation
- känslaemotion; impression
- känslorin plural: emotional state or well-being
- känslorin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- känslaintuition
Tagalog pakiramdam, pagtingin
- pakiramdamsensation
- pagtinginin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- pakiramdamintuition
Thai ความรู้สึก, อารมณ์
- ความรู้สึก (kwaam-rúu-sʉ̀k)emotion; impression
- อารมณ์ (aa-rom)emotion; impression
Turkish duygusal, duyarlı
- duygusalemotionally sensitive
- duyarlıemotionally sensitive
- hassasemotionally sensitive
- dokunaklıemotionally sensitive
- duygusensation
- hissetmesensation
- duyguemotion; impression
- hisemotion; impression
Ukrainian почуття́, почуття́
- почуття́ (počuttjá)sensation
- почуття́ (počuttjá)emotion; impression
- емо́ція (emócija)emotion; impression
Urdu اِحْساس, حِس
- اِحْساس (ihsās)sensation
- حِس (his)sensation
- اِحْساس (ihsās)emotion; impression
- جَذْبَہ (jazba)emotion; impression
- جَذْبات (jazbāt)emotion; impression
- خَیال (xayāl)intuition
Vietnamese cảm giác, cảm xúc
- cảm giácsensation
- cảm xúcemotion; impression
Welsh teimlad, teimlad
- teimladsensation
- teimlademotion; impression
- teimladauin plural: emotional state or well-being
- teimladauin plural: emotional attraction or desire
- teimladintuition
- greddfintuition
Yiddish געפֿיל, געפֿיל
- געפֿיל (gefil)sensation
- געפֿיל (gefil)emotion; impression
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with feeling
dealinghealingceilingappealingrevealingstealingsealingwheelingpeelingkneelingrepealingreelingconcealingElingheelingpealingglass ceilingshielingsinking feeling
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