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feeling meaning

EN[ˈfiːlɪŋ] [-iːlɪŋ]
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  • Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception.
  • Perception of the physical world does not necessarily result in a universal reaction among receivers (see emotions), but varies depending on one's tendency to handle the situation, how the situation relates to the receiver's past experiences,
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    Definition of feeling in English Dictionary

  • NounPLfeelingsSUF-ing
    1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
      1. The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
    2. Emotion; impression.
      1. The house gave me a feeling of dread.
    3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
      1. You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
    4. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
      1. Many people still have feelings for their first love.
    5. Intuition.
      1. He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
    6. An opinion, an attitude.
      1. When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.
  • Verb
    1. present participle of feel.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore feelingSUPmost feeling
      1. Emotionally sensitive.
        1. Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
      2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
        1. He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
    3. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • ( emotion ) I can reblot about the queasy feeling of that restaurant.
        • Working-class families are feeling the pinch in the wake of the recession.
        • He remembers feeling that people looked down on him, and, ‘realising I was rubbish at academic stuff’, he decided he'd join a circus.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • Like the appeals to sympathy and generosity, the appeal to civic-mindedness attempts to capitalize on benevolent feelings.
        • If we fail to take into consideration the works of these interpreters of “yestermorrow,” we will be failing to monitor the pulse of contemporary thought and feeling.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Adjectives
        • Morphemes
          • Suffixes
            • Words by suffix
              • Words suffixed with -ing
          • Nouns
            • Countable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Verb forms
                • Participles
                  • Present participles
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            4. en feelingly
            5. en feelingless
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of feeling for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "feeling" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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