feeling

adj
/ˈfiː.lɪŋ/UK/ˈfi.lɪŋ/CA

Etymology

From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.

  1. inherited from felynge

Definitions

  1. Emotionally sensitive.

    • Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
  2. Expressive of great sensibility

    Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

    • He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
  3. Sensation, particularly through the skin.

    • The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
  4. + 6 more definitions
    1. Emotion

      Emotion; impression.

      • The house gave me a feeling of dread.
      • Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
    2. Emotional state or well-being.

      • You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
    3. Emotional attraction or desire.

      • Many people still have feelings for their first love.
      • 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
    4. 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.
      • Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you
    5. An opinion, an attitude.

      • When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.
    6. present participle and gerund of feel

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at feeling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at feeling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at feeling

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA