feeling
adjEtymology
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
- inherited from felynge
Definitions
Emotionally sensitive.
- Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
Expressive of great sensibility
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
- He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Sensation, particularly through the skin.
- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
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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.
Emotional state or well-being.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
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
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
An opinion, an attitude.
- When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.
present participle and gerund of feel
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Derived
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
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.
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.
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