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See also: Feeling
English
Etymology
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfiːlɪŋ/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfilɪŋ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
- Hyphenation: feel‧ing
Adjective
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.
Translations
emotionally sensitive
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Noun
feeling (plural feelings)
- Sensation, particularly through the skin.
- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
- Emotion; impression.
- The house gave me a feeling of dread.
- 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
- Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
- (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
- (usually in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
- Many people still have feelings for their first love.
- 2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”performed by Chappell Roan:
- 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
- Intuition.
- He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
- I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
- 1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:
- Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you
- An opinion, an attitude.
- 1972, George J. W. Goodman (Adam Smith), Supermoney, page 156:
- When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.
Derived terms
- bad feeling
- feelingful
- feeling in one's waters
- feelingless
- feelingly
- feelingness
- feelpinion
- fellow-feeling, fellow feeling
- floating feeling
- gut feeling
- hard feelings
- hurt feelings
- ill feeling
- misfeeling
- mixed feelings
- nonfeeling
- no sense no feeling
- race feeling
- self-feeling
- sinking feeling
- that tired feeling
- underfeeling
- unfeeling
- where there's no sense there's no feeling
Descendants
Translations
sensation
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emotion; impression
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in plural: emotional state or well-being
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in plural: emotional attraction or desire
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intuition
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Verb
feeling
- present participle and gerund of feel
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Noun
feeling m (plural feelings)
- instinct, hunch
- 1981, Michel Berger, “Tout pour la musique”, performed by France Gall:
- Et le feeling prime la raison / Ils s'abandonnent à l'unisson
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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