Dictionary
feel•ing
Pronunciation: (fē'ling), [key]—
n.
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.
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adj.
1. sensitive; sentient.
2. readily affected by emotion; sympathetic:
a feeling heart.
3. indicating or characterized by emotion:
a feeling reply to the charge. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
