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(1989) In this entry: feeling attitude feeling state feeling tone have a feeling for, to have feelings for, to hurt a person's feelings, to hurt the feelings of, to in (the) feeling relieve one's feelings, to In other dictionaries: fẹ̄ling(e, ger.(1) in Middle English Dictionary Jump to: Entry Date feel, n. a1400 feel, v. eOE feelable, adj. c1443 feelably, adv. ?a1475 feel-bad, adj. 1875 feeler, n. 1435 feeless, adj. 1604 feel-good, n. and adj. 1849 feelie, n. 1931 feeling, n. a1225 feeling, adj. a1400 feelingful, adj. 1848 feelingless, adj. a1658 feelingly, adv. a1382 feelingness, n. 1611 feelless, adj. 1684 feelsome, adj. a1450 feelthy, adj. 1930 feeman, n. 1509 feer, n.1 ?c1225 My searches

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(1) Pronunciation: Thesaurus » View as: Outline | Full entry Keywords: On | Off Quotations: Show all | Hide all feeling, n. Brit. /ˈfiːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfilɪŋ/ Forms: see feel v. and -ing suffix ; also Irish English (Wexford) 17 feelen, 18 feeleen. Frequency (in current use): Origin: f ormed within e nglish, by derivation. Etymons: feel v., -ing suffix . Etymology: < feel v. + -ing suffix . I. Senses relating to sensation or touch. 1. a.

The capacity to experience the sense of touch or other bodily sensations (as of heat, cold, pain, motion, etc.); physical sensation other than sight, hearing, taste, or smell. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 75 Hore blawing, hore smelling, heore feling wes al iattret. c1225 ( ?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 169 Hire fif wittes, Sihðe & herunge, smechunge & smellunge, & euch limes felunge. a1398 J. TRevi Sa tr.

Bartholomaeus a nglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bl a dd. 27944) (1975) i. iii . ix. 98 Þe spirit of felinge is ihilde and ischad into al þe body. ?a1450 J. a Rde Rne in 17th Internat. Congr.

Med. (1914) xxiii . 111 (MED) There was a wommane that sodeynly loste the feelynge & movynge of bothe armys in the nyghte. c1460 ( a1325) Cursor Mundi (l aud) l. 17018 Heryng, speche, sight, smellyng & felyng are wyttes v. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings iv. 31 There was nether voyce ner felynge. 1576 T. n ew Ton tr. l . l emnie Touchstone of Complexions i. viii. f. 61 Some do so astonne the lymmes of them, that touche them, that they haue no feelinge..a good whyle after. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist.

World i. x . lxxi. 306 There is not a living creature ..but hath the sence of feeling, although it have none else. 1669 a . BRowne Ars Pictoria (1675) 65 f inally by the feeling, we touch cold and hot, moist and dry. 1712 J. a ddi Son Spectator n o. 411. ¶1 The Sense of f eeling can indeed give us a n otion of ..Shape. 1727 a . Ha Mil Ton New Acct. E. Indies ii . xli. 109 The e lephant would find out the g old among the l ead, by the nice f eeling of his Proboscis. 1789 g . w HiTe Nat. Hist.

Selborne xi. 146 a natomists say that rooks ..have a more delicate feeling in their beaks than other round-billed birds. 1828 J. STa RK Elements Nat. Hist. i. 30 a hoof ..blunts the feeling, and renders the foot incapable of seizing. 1871 R. e lli S tr. Catullus Poems lxiv. 189 Yet from grief-worn limbs shall feeling wholly depart not. 1919 Science 7 Mar. 238/1 He is devoid of powers of olfaction, though possessing a sense of feeling in certain regions of the nasal epithelium. 1943 T.

KiTCHing Diary 9 a pr. in Life & Death in Changi (1998) x. 219 Barron's circulation is all to blazes and he has no feeling in his feet. Help on Dictionary Entry Print Save Email Cite Text size: 1 1 1 l oading [MathJax]/extensions/MathZoom.js HOME ABOUT COMMUNITY BLOG Quick search: Lost for Words? Advanced search Help Dictionary Categories Timelines Sources Historical Thesaurus Browse: Access: California Judicial Center Library Personal profile: Sign in Find word in dictionary Search

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » (Hide quotations) 2014 Daily Tel. (n exis) 16 May 29 His thigh was cold to the touch and appeared to have lost all feeling. b. a physical sensation or perception (as of touch, heat, cold, pain, motion, etc.) experienced through this capacity. a1425 J. w YClif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) ii . 10 (MED) a nd wiþ þis felyng of þis womman, g od ȝaf hir witt to prophecie þus. 1528 T.

Pa Ynell tr. a rnaldus de v illa n ova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. a The vertue of the henbane taketh away the felynge of the payne. 1587 SiR P. Sidne Y & a . g olding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. i. 7 Sounds, Sents, Sauors and f eelings. 1614 w . Raleig H Hist. World i. i. iii. §7. 45 The aire is so thinne ..that it is not sufficient to beare vp the body of a bird, hauing therein no feeling of her wings. 1688 R. Hol Me Acad. Armory ii . 387/2 a f lamation, or f lamatious feeling; as the pain of burning and scalding. 1702 J. PURCell Treat.

Vapours iii. 68 The Crudities ..irritate the n erves of those Parts with such a Motion, as causes a feeling of Cold all the way they go up the Back. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers ii . xiv. 214 a kind of feeling, or immediate perception of things present, and in contact with the percipient. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 242 it is often difficult ..to describe on paper every feeling and appearance we notice. 1846 w . B. Ca RPen Te R Man. Physiol. xiii. 540 a feeling of some of the corporeal changes taking place within themselves. 1884 B. Bo Sanq Ue T et al. tr.

H. l otze Metaphysic 524 That feeling which instructs us respecting the position, the movement, and the amount of exertion of our limbs. 1920 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 4 June 7/1 (advt.) That balloony feeling after meals will quickly disappear if you swallow a few d ill's d igesters. 1974 Jrnl. Clin. Pharmacol. 14 109/2 Subjects who had received the higher dose of triazolam had a greater feeling of drowsiness the following day. 2014 Burton (Staffs.) Mail (n exis) 2 June a lack of potassium in your system can cause feelings of nausea. 2. a.

The action of experiencing a sensation in response to a (physical or mental) stimulus; the action of touching or exploring something with the hands. in figurative uses sometimes difficult to distinguish from uses at branch ii . c1225 ( ?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 222 Þe feorðe fulst to bismere, & to merren meiðhad, þet is unhende felunge ..for ȝef ȝe þenne hondlið ow in ei stude untuliche, þenne smit leccherie o þe mihte of meiðhad. ?c1225 ( ?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 92 Handlung oðer ei felunge bi tweone mon & ancre is þing swa uncundelich. a1400 tr. l anfranc Sci.

Cirurgie (a shm.) (1894) 140 in þis ben yuel signes..crampe, to schite wiþoute felynge, & vnmouablete of alle þe membris. c1475 ( 1392) Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 21 (MED) The brayn ..official it is seid, ffor it haþ þe office of felynge and stirynge. ?1565 R. f ill S tr. T. de Bèze Briefe Summe Christian Faith (new ed.) vii. f. 145 Concerninge the contrition of the harte, wee know that the verye true amendment of a Christian, must beginne by the feelyng of his synnes. v v

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » 1611 Bible (King James) e ph. iv. 19 w ho being past feeling haue giuen themselues ouer vnto lasciuiousnesse. 1674 n . f ai Rfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 48 The knowledge of heat that we have from the feeling of it, is far more off from the right knowledge of it, or such as may likeliest become g od, than [etc.]. 1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 264 The famous Statuary g anibasius ..could by f eeling make a Statue in Clay. 1791 J.

Bo Swell Life Johnson anno 1752 i. 127 l ove is not a subject of reasoning, but of feeling. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 14 f rom the first feeling of a febrile attack. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 47 Rein back— a light feeling of both reins. 1875 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 4 66 Man's sensation of colour, his hearing of sounds, his smelling of smells, his tasting of tastes, and his feeling of the shapes of things. 1906 S. S. l a URie Synthetica i. 18 The feeling of an object by a subject-being or entity. 1956 H. Me RRiCK tr. H.

Buhl Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage 36 n o pulling or propping, no violent ‘heave-ho!’, but a cautious feeling of the way upwards, often made more difficult by vertical stratification. 2005 Yorks. Post (n exis) 14 Mar. Behaviour which..would bring a swift feeling of the collar and an appearance before magistrates. b. w ith out. The action of testing or finding out by careful investigation or observation; the sounding out of a person's intentions, strength, etc. Cf. to feel out at feel v.

Phrasal verbs. 1923 Princeton Alumni Weekly 21 n ov. 167/1 it [sc. the completion of a pass] marked the end of the feeling-out process for Yale. 1926 H. J. l a SKi Let. 2 May (1953) ii . 838 The acute pleasure that the feeling-out of other minds gives one. 1964 e . l . BRown Newer Dimensions in Patient Care iii . viii. 148 The hospital is too busy a place to use the ‘feeling out’ process if it can be avoided. 1994 Vanity Fair f eb. 135/2 Redstone made a feeling-out phone call to d iller at the w aldorf. II. Senses relating to emotion, sentiment, or mental sensitivity or awareness. 3.

Capacity or readiness to feel emotion, esp. sympathy or empathy; susceptibility to emotional or aesthetic influences; sensibility. ?c1400 ( c1380) g . CHa UCe R tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Bl a dd. 10340) (1868) ii . pr. iv. l. 1084 e uery weleful man haþ a wel delicat felyng. So þat but yif alle þinges fallen at hys owen wille ..an-oone he is þrowe adoune. c1405 ( c1395) g . CHa UCe R Wife of Bath's Tale (e llesmere) (1872) l. 610 f for certes i am al v enerien in feelynge and myn herte is Marcien. ?1533 g . d U w e S Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig.

Sii g rose folke of rude affection d ronkerdes, banysshed of trewe felyng. 1598 w . SHa Ke SPea Re Love's Labour's Lost iv . ii. 29 w e thankful should be: which we taste, and feeling, are for those partes that doe fructifie in vs more then he. 1600 e . Blo Un T tr. g . f . di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 44 w ho if he had any feeling of a man, should [etc.]. 1622 f . Ba Con Hist. Raigne Henry VII 33 Their king ..out of a Princely feeling, was sparing, and compassionate towards his Subjects. 1731 J. Swif T Let. 10 Sept. in Wks. (1843) ii . 659/2 She has ..not one grain of

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » (Hide quotations) feeling. 1741 d . HUMe Ess. Moral & Polit. i. i. 3 The delicacy of his f eeling or Sentiments makes him be touched very sensibly by every Part of it. 1801 M. e dgewo RTH Forester in Moral Tales i. 175 He thinks i have no feeling. 1811 J. a USTen Sense & Sensibility i. xv. 190 is he not a man of honour and feeling ? 1849 J. RUSKin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 49 a woman of feeling would not wear false jewels. 1918 M. f .

Pei RCe New York i. viii. 61 if you had any feeling i should think you would wish her to be with me for the next few months. 1983 Wilson Q. 7 141 Romantics ..portrayed Mozart as an otherworldly spirit, a creature of exquisite feeling. 2009 Birmingham Evening Mail (n exis) 13 Mar. 70 They are devoid of feeling and humanity ..and must be hunted down and severely punished. 4. a. The condition of being emotionally affected or committed; emotion, sentiment; an instance of this, an emotion (of hope, joy, sorrow, etc.). a1413 ( c1385) g .

CHa UCe R Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii . l. 1090 The felyng of his sorwe or of his fere, o r of ought elles, fled was out of towne. a nd doun he fel al sodeynly a swowne. a1425 ( c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (l aud) (1884) cxxx. 3 (MED) if i had not meke felyng ..bot i heghid my soul in pride. a1450 ( 1369) g . CHa UCe R Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 1172 a lgatis songes thus i made o f my felynge myn herte to glade. 1532 ( c1385) Usk's Test. Love in w . w . Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 9 a ll my passions and felinges weren lost. 1571 a . g olding tr. J.

Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxv. 12) They lawgh in their sleeve, which content themselves with the secret feeling of their owne joy. 1600 J. Po RY tr. J. l eo a fricanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii . 392 The which with great feeling, and contentment having understood ..he instituted a Synod. 1639 n . n . tr. J. d u Bosc Compl. Woman ii . 13 Separation is so often made without any feeling. 1678 S. BUTle R Hudibras: Third Pt. iii . ii. 191 f ear that keeps all feeling, out, a s lesser pains are, by the g out. 1764 J. Yo Ung Serm. Var. Pract.

Subj. i. x. 164 a ll the painful feelings of fear, anxiety, and despair. 1772 R. HURd in a . Cowley Select Wks. ii . 176 The poet, as usual, expresses his own feeling. 1781 J. Moo Re View Society & Manners Italy i. xiv. 157 e very compunctious feeling of the heart is sacrificed. 1814 w . SCo TT Waverley iii . xiv. 189 f eelings more easily conceived than described. 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 281 f rom that moment a feeling of hopelessness ran through us. 1877 e . R.

Conde R Basis of Faith i. 13 Religious feelings differ from other feelings by their nature and by their object. 1915 Fortnightly a pr. 866 Many ..are apparently intended to create a feeling of shame in the minds of unrecruited young men. 1947 J. o . Baile Y Pilgrims through Time & Space 318 if art is only the impassioned expression of powerful feeling ..it does not include scientific fiction. 1987 K. l e TTe Girls' Night Out (1989) 109 ‘He's a bad egg,’ she said with feeling. 2010 C. w ooding Black Lung Captain xx. 236 He'd forgotten the sad gray feeling that had settled on him lately.

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false Thesaurus » (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » b. in plural. a person's emotions or sympathies considered collectively; the emotional susceptibilities or tendencies of a person's character. Cf. to hurt a person's feelings at Phrases 2. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (f awkes) (1873) 155 f or we haue oure wylle free. but not oure felynges ..a nd therfore oure mercyfull lorde takyth vs not after oure felynges but after oure wylles. 1640 J. d . Knave in Graine iv . i. sig.

K Here my griefe so parches me, that it does paine me to relate my woes, and make my feelings knowne. 1693 a . Mon Ro Serm. Several Occasions 283 He rejoices in the midst of his sorrows, to sacrifice his feelings and infirmities to the Conduct and w isdom of g od. 1771 e . g Riffi TH tr. ‘P. v iaud’ Shipwreck 4 They need none of these heightenings to interest the feelings of my friend. 1791 a . Rad Cliffe Romance of Forest ii . x. 79 She tried to command her feelings so as to avoid disturbing the family. 1828 J. w .

CRo Ke R Croker Papers (1884) i. xiii. 404 a ll my time being employed in assuaging what gentlemen call their feelings. 1852 H. B. STowe Uncle Tom's Cabin i. vii. 88 Both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings. 1903 R. Bold Rewood Last Chance (1905) xi. 272 w e shall have to leave you at home next time if you cannot control your feelings. 2004 J. f ellowe S Snobs (2005) xviii. 264 He's not a great one for showing his feelings but he was in the most frightful state, i can tell you. 5. a.

Consciousness, awareness; an emotional appreciation or sense (of one's own condition, an external fact, etc.). a1425 ( ?a1400) g . CHa UCe R Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6447 w ho so hath in his felyng The consequence of such shryuyng. c1450 ( c1380) g . CHa UCe R House of Fame (f airf. 16) (1878) l. 552 f or so astonyed and a-sweued w as every vertu in my heued ..a nd al my felynge gan to dede. ?1529 R. HYRde tr. J. l . v ives Instr. Christen Woman ii . vii. sig. f.iij if folkes departed out of this lyfe, haue any remembrance or felynge of wordly matters, [etc.]. 1574 g . f en Ton tr. J.

Talpin Forme Christian Pollicie iii . v. 135 Yet these miserable plaiers, haue no feeling of their wretchednes. 1608 w . SHa Ke SPea Re King Lear xx. 273 i ..haue ingenious feeling o f my huge sorowes. 1638 R. Ba Ke R tr. J. l . g . de Balzac New Epist. ii . 69 The feeling i have of the courtesies received from him. 1683 d . a . Whole Art Converse 56 You would easily be wrought into some feeling of your folly in this point. 1705 g . STan Ho Pe Paraphr.

Epist. & Gospels ii . 296 They have already sufficient feeling of their disease. 1775 T. l eland Christian's Duty to Offenders 5 if the offender be awakened to a feeling of his danger. 1814 i. d 'iSRaeli Quarrels Auth. ii . 134 He was ..too conscious of his superiority, to betray a feeling of injury. 1828 w . SCo TT Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. i. 71 To encourage with a feeling of safety those whom [etc.]. 1874 J. T. MiCKle THwai Te Mod. Parish Churches 30 The feeling of perfect equality inside the church. 1938 w . w a TSon Miss Pettigrew lives for Day vii. 97 Miss Pettigrew sat

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J. n o RRell Up from Hist. 48 Myths that nurtured a feeling of their unique historical experience. b. a n idea, belief, or sense (especially a vague or irrational one) that a particular thing is true; an impression that something is about to happen or is the case; an intuition about something. 1811 Naval Chron. 26 203 w hen going into that machine [sc. a stage coach], i had a feeling ..i should not get out of it without some mischief or another. 1885 S. K. Ho CKing Our Joe vi. 41 Joe reluctantly obeyed, for he had a feeling that he was being led into a trap. 1922 J.

STRee T Rita Coventry xix. 191 i sometimes get the feeling that i don't know you so very well, after all. 1955 P. l a RKin Let. 23 f eb. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 236 i have a sort of feeling about Jonathan Price's poetry. 1967 J. B. Keane in Celebrated Lett. (1996) 24 i have the feeling that i was watched the whole time. 1979 P. THe Ro Ux Old Patagonian Express xix. 293 i don't want to be in a train crash.

But i have a very bad feeling about this train. 1988 Chicago Tribune (n exis) 16 Mar. 20 in w ashington you get the feeling that if people ..wear yellow shirts ..the fashion police will rush right over to cover them with a Burberry. 2006 P. Jo SYPH Liberty St. vi. 100 i have a funny feeling you'll be back. 6. a. That which a person feels in regard to something; attitude, esp. emotional attitude, sentiment; opinion or belief based on emotion or intuition and not solely on reason. †f ormerly also : judgement, considered opinion (obsolete) (cf. feel v. 10). c1425 Treat. Ten Commandments in Stud.

Philol. (1910) 6 9 (MED) f or diuers causes þat been good & lawful to my felynge. c1456 R. Pe Co CK Bk. Faith (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 191 (MED) Tho opiniouns were aȝens the felyng of the general chirche. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. d ublin) (1893) 10 w herfore truste not to muche in thin ovne felyng, but desire gladly to here oþir mennys felinges. 1531 w . TYndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. xc a nd finally i haue better reasons for my felynge that y pope is antichrist then M.

More hath for his endeuorynge him selfe & captiuinge his wittes y he is y true church. 1613 g . w iTHe R Abuses Stript ii . ii. sig.

P6 i by my owne experience speake, i haue a feeling that we men are weake. a1633 w . a Me S Substance Christian Relig. (1659) xlvi. 274 But what ever our own particular feelings be, in respect of charity, & the judgment & desire thereof towards others, we ought alwayes either expresly or impliedly, to call upon g od. 1762 o . g old SMiTH Citizen of World i. 160 if we survey a king not only opposing his own feelings, but reluctantly refusing those he regards. 1771 e . g Riffi TH tr. ‘P. v iaud’ Shipwreck 236 i communicated my thoughts and feelings to Mr. w right. 1828 i. d 'iSRaeli Comm.

Life Charles I i. v. 120 The feelings of the Romanists e t e v

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Jowe TT in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) v . 7 They have the feelings of old men about youth. 1922 T. S. e lio T Lett. (1988) i. 554 i am sure you will understand my feelings about this matter. 1973 Field & Stream f eb. 187/1 Spell out your feeling on guns and gun control ..and ask them to go on record with theirs. 2014 Racing Post (n exis) 4 July 108 The general feeling was that he could have won if he had been freed from team orders. b. Business. The degree of readiness to buy prevailing amongst traders; market sentiment. 1823 Augusta (g eorgia) Chron. 11 o ct.

These opinions ..have produced an unfavourable change in the tone of feeling in the market here. 1847 Economist 2 o ct. 1146/2 The arrivals have been large since the 23rd ult., and there is a better feeling at market. 1888 Daily News 11 July 2/7 a n improved feeling is also perceptible in ropes. 1920 Market Reporter 4 d ec. 359/1 Prices alone do not indicate any material improvement in condensed milk markets, but there is a slightly better feeling than a month ago. 2007 Platts Oilgram Price Rep. (n exis) 14 June 3 The sale was seen by most as somewhat surprising, given the overall weak feeling in the market. c.

The mode of expression considered most natural or instinctive in a language. n ow rare. 1875 B. Jowe TT in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) i. Pref. p. xv The feeling of the modern language is more opposed to tautology. 1891 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 12 165 The distinction ..has a certain aesthetic value in marking a limit which the feeling of the language imposed on the range of metaphora. 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 30 19 a s soon as Stahl..says that the present indicative in conditional sentences is used when a general assumption is made ..he runs counter to the feeling of the language. 7.

The quality or condition which is felt to belong to anything; the general impression or effect produced on a person by an object, a place, another person, etc. 1597 w . SHa Ke SPea Re Richard II i. iii. 264 The apprehension of the good, g iues but the greater feeling to the worse. 1762 l d . Ka Me S Elements Crit. i. ii. 218 The base, which makes a part of the column, inspires a feeling of firmness and stability. 1830 Fraser's Mag. July 706/1 w hat added to the strange feeling of the moment during these devotions was, that the sea-fowl were whirling round and screaming near us. 1884 w . C.

SMiTH Kildrostan 45 He nigh lost his wits ere morning ..So weird-like

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » was the feeling of the place. 1922 e . SiTwell in New Age 6 July 120/1 i liked ..the warm, South-of-f rance feeling about her. 1959 f . a STai Re Steps in Time (1960) ii. 10 it had the flavor, the neighborliness, and that small-town feeling without actually being one. 2012 Time Out N.Y. 22 Mar. 11/2 This charming w est v illage spot evokes the feeling of a Parisian bistro à vins. 8.

Philosophy and Psychology. in various technical uses, as: (a) (in the writings of Thomas Brown, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, etc.) a fact or state of consciousness; (

b) a generic term comprising sensation, desire, and emotion, but excluding perception and thought; (c) [after g erman Gefühl in the writings of immanuel Kant] (more narrowly) the element of pleasure or pain in any mental state; (

d) an intuitive cognition or belief neither requiring nor admitting of proof. 1734 g . Be RKele Y Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. (new ed.) §89 w e comprehend our own e xistence by inward f eeling or Reflexion, and that of other Spirits by Reason. 1739 d . HUMe Treat. Human Nature i. iv . 401 Tho' bodies are felt by means of their solidity, yet the feeling is a quite different thing from the solidity. 1820 T. BRown Lect. Philos. Human Mind i. xxv. 581 The feelings of extension, resistance, joy, sorrow, fragrance, colour, hope, fear, heat, cold, admiration, resentment. 1820 T. BRown Lect. Philos.

Human Mind i. xi. 256 Consciousness ..is only a general term for all our feelings, of whatever species these may be,— sensations, thoughts, desires;—in short, all those states or affections of mind in which the phenomena of mind consist. 1824 J. d . w Heele R Rep. Criminal Law Cases 2 36 e qually perceptible is the moral feeling that it is wrong to injure our fellow man. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic i. i. iii. §3. 66 f eeling, in the proper sense of the term, is a genus, of which Sensation, e motion, and Thought, are subordinate species. 1846 w . Ha Mil Ton in T.

Reid Wks. 760 f eeling is a term preferable to Consciousness, in so far as the latter does not mark so well the simplicity, ultimacy, and incomprehensibility of our original apprehensions. 1855 a . Bain Senses & Intellect introd. i. 2 The quality variously called f eeling, Consciousness, or e motion. a1856 w . Ha Mil Ton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) i. xi. 186 This division of the phænomena of mind into the three great classes of the Cognitive faculties,— the f eelings, or capacities of Pleasure and Pain,—and the e xertive or Conative Powers ..was first promulgated by Kant. a1856 w . Ha Mil Ton Lect.

Metaphysics (1859) ii . xli. 492 The first grand distribution of our feelings will, therefore, be into the Sensations,—that is, the Sensitive or e xternal f eelings; and into the Sentiments,—that is, the Mental or internal f eelings. 1871 J. TYndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) ii . xv. 375 f eeling appeared in the world before knowledge. 1875 B. Jowe TT in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) iv . 14 f eeling is not opposed to knowledge, and in all consciousness there is an element of both. 1892 J.

SUll Y Human Mind i. iv. 64 The term feeling ..in a stricter sense is confined to those modes of consciousness which are in a peculiar sense affections of the subject, and which do not, in the same direct way as our thoughts and volitions, involve a clear reference to objects. 1892 J. SUll Y Human Mind ii . xiii. 1 w e include under the head of feeling all psychical states or phenomena so far as they have the element or aspect of the agreeable and disagreeable.

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » (Hide quotations) 1902 Mind 11 283 Melancholia can be explained as due to the alteration of affective disposition by feelings. 1903 H. Mana Co Rda & J. MUiRHead tr. g . v illa Contemp. Psychol. v. 200 f eeling, in their opinion, is an autonomous mental function quite independent of cognition and of will. 1908 J. w a TSon tr. i. Kant in Philos.

Kant Explained 475 But it is not so in the case of the feeling of pleasure and pain, which tells us nothing of the object, but only how the subject himself feels, when he is affected by the idea. 1914 Catholic Univ. Bull. 20 156 The objects excite, or awaken in us, certain states of feeling. w hat we term the properties of an object are the powers it exerts of producing sensations in our consciousness. 1992 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 18 442/1 f eelings are temporary affective states that are subjectively perceived by an individual. 2009 Human Stud. 32 19 Kant distinguished affects from passions and feeling. 9.

Usually in plural. Sympathy or fondness for, or emotional attachment to, a person or thing; (in later use esp.) romantic attraction. f requently in to have feelings for. 1750 Fables & Tales for Ladies 43 'Tis a Secret none can find, But those who ..can have f eelings for a Brother, and think each Self's to serve another. 1829 Western Luminary 28 o ct. 1/5 e very one..knows what it is to have feelings for anxious sinners. 1852 Lost Inheritance i. xv. 285 n othing will change our feelings for each other ... There is such a moral power in true, earnest love, that nothing can successfully oppose it. 1910 e .

M. f o RSTe R Howards End xv. 165 Paul has rather a feeling for the old place. 1929 Amer. Mercury Jan. 96/2 The visiting Yankee technicians ..developed kindly feelings for employés. 1990 Daily Herald (Chicago) 8 a pr. v . 1/5 it hasn't affected my feelings for the game at all. 2014 Sun (n exis) 19 n ov. i didn't expect to meet l eo and end up having feelings for him, but i did. 10. in various artistic contexts, chiefly developing from senses 4 and 5. a. Music and Theatre. Sympathetic

interpretation of the emotional content or intention of a musical or dramatic composition, as manifested in the way it is played or performed. 1771 C. BURne Y Present State Music France & Italy 42 This lady ..plays the most difficult pieces with great precision, taste, and feeling. 1784 European Mag. & London Rev. May 366/2 n o modern has been heard to play an adagio with greater taste and feeling. 1824 l d .

BYRon Don Juan: Canto XVI xli. 84 The circle ..applauds..The tones, the feeling, and the execution. 1874 Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours 16 455/1 a girl ..reciting, with wonderful feeling and expression, the glowing lines of the lovelorn Juliet. 1918 Proc.

Royal Soc. 1917–18 a . 94 p. xxix He took up a violin, and played with masterly touch and exquisite feeling some Scotch airs. 1976 Jet 8 July 47/2 He played alto saxophone with such feeling that many of his recordings are classics today. 1993 Grand Street n o. 47. 163 if you were performing Marie-Jeanne ou la Femme du Peuple, you would try to put some feeling into it.

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false Categories » (Hide quotations) Categories » (Hide quotations) b. Art. The emotional content or purport of a work, or the sensibility of the artist, as manifested in the way a picture is painted, drawn, etc.; the general tone of a work, esp. as contrasted with the particular techniques employed in its creation. 1824 Philos.

Trans. (Royal Soc.) 114 247 The delicate touches by which the skill and feeling of an accomplished artist convey an expression of sense, and grace, and sensibility to the finished representation of the human form. 1854 f . w . f ai RHol T Dict. Terms Art Feeling, that visible quality in a work of a rt which forcibly depicts the mental emotion of the painter, or which exhibits his perfect mastery over the materials of a rt. 1875 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 26 June 864/1 ‘a Surrey f arm-House’ ..delicate in execution, and beautiful in feeling and effect. 1906 Fine Arts Jrnl. 17 572 in the second panel, Mr.

Blum has given us the harmony of contrast; not of color or drawing or technique, but of feeling. 1990 Master Drawings 28 275/1 e ssentially, this sheet is entirely italian in feeling and execution. 2001 S. P. SRiva STava Jahangir i. 25 in all the jungle scenes, the landscape is shown with great feeling. c. Architecture. The general tone of a building or style of architecture; the impression produced by a building on a spectator. 1859 J. M. Je PHSon & l . Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany v. 52 a favourable example of Renaissance, retaining as it does much g othic feeling. 1874 J. T. MiCKle THwai Te Mod.

Parish Churches 10 if the whole feeling of a building leads up to one point. 1938 Connecticut: Guide to Roads, Lore, & People (f ederal w riters' Project) ii . 262 St James e piscopal Church ..is a brownstone building of g othic feeling, with a high spire and heavy buttresses. 2001 d .

SHand -TUCCi Campus Guide: Harvard University 260 The east end of Radcliffe Yard is governed by ..a lighter, more attenuated neoclassical feeling. 11. w ith modifying word: an emotion or attitude of the specified type that two or more people or groups feel with respect to each other. f requently with between. n ow sometimes in plural. Cf. fellow -feeling n., hard feeling n. at Ha Rd adj. and n. Compounds 4. 1806 Newport (Rhode island) Mercury 11 o ct.

There existed a thousand reasons ..which made it desirable for him to promote a becoming feeling between g reat-Britain and a merica. 1836 e . e ve Re TT Orations 378 There are recollections of former times, well calculated to form a bond of good feeling between our universities. 1863 e . a . f Ree Man Hist. Federal Govt. iv. 167 The events of the Peloponnesian w ar at once tended to beget a bitter feeling between a thens and the Bœotians. 1895 London Story Paper 12 Jan. 4/5 Husband and wife ate on together in silence. There was manifestly an ill-feeling between them. 1952 S.

Ka Uff Mann Philanderer (1957) ix. 150 n othing creates quite as good a feeling between people as one person's laughing overwhelmingly at the

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » other's humour. 2014 Santa Fe New Mexican (n exis) 4 June The ads ..intensified bad feelings between factions of the d emocratic Party. 12. Psychology and Aesthetics. w ith in, into. The process or fact of projecting one's personality into or mentally identifying oneself with an object of contemplation, and so fully understanding or appreciating it.

Cf. einfü Hl Ung n., e MPa THY n. 2a. [a fter g erman Einfühlung einfü Hl Ung n.; compare to feel into —— at feel v. Phrasal verbs] . 1909 w . M. URBan Valuation viii. 238 The subject is said to enliven the object by projecting or feeling into it his own feeling content, for which process of ‘feeling-in’, or inner imitation, some aspect or expression of the object constitutes the stimulus. 1933 H. Read Art Now i. 49 n o mere fellow-feeling, or feeling with, but rather a form of imaginative identification of the self with the object, a feeling into. 1949 a .

Koe STle R Insight & Outlook xxvi. 359 This feeling-in process, or empathy, is ..based on the projection of part of our own personality into the shell of the other. 1997 M. Sawi CKi Body, Text & Sci. iii. 96 e mpathy was construed as a ‘feeling - into’, with the projecting feeler and the targeted feeler ontologically distinct from each other and from a third thing, the felt content. III. Senses relating to knowledge, skill, or aptitude. †13. Knowledge, understanding, skill, esp. that gained through practical experience. Obsolete. c1405 ( c1390) g .

CHa UCe R Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 473 Ther with ye han in Musyk moore feelynge Than hadde Boece or any þ kan synge. a1413 ( c1385) g . CHa UCe R Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) iii . l. 1333 i speke ..vnder correccioun. o f yow þat felyng han in loues art. a1500 ( ?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (l amb.) 49 (MED) g od make þe fast in way of knowynge and felynge of þreuth & vertues. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. v. 4 Pacience bryngeth felynge, felynge bryngeth hope. 1526 w .

Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. a ii Some be exellently lerned, and yet haue but small felyng of these thynges. 1630 tr. g .

Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 100 Spaine both knowes us, and hath of late had some feeling of us. 14. a talent or aptitude; an affinity or intuitive understanding. f requently in to have a feeling for and variants. 1808 Belfast Monthly Mag. 31 d ec. 381/1 The number of happy and truly poetical expressions with which he has supplied v irgil, prove that e nnius was possessed of the true spirit of poetry, and above all, with a feeling for imitative harmony. 1896 Educ.

Rev. o ct. 275 i do not believe that the true way to get a feeling for l atin is by any conscious process—least of all by any conscious forcing process. 1952 R. e lli Son Let. 8 Jan. in R. e llison & a . Murray Trading Twelves (2000) 24 t v

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » (Hide quotations) (Hide quotations) She got into that Haitian groove. She really had the feeling for that stuff too, man—mostly in the shoulders though 'cause as she explained them Hate - ties don't fool around with bumps and grinds lessen it's death dance. 1994 Time 7 Mar. 64/3 She showed authority and what her coach calls bing gan, a feeling for skating. 2011 Engin.

Designer (n exis) July 4 He said they had a ‘feeling’ for how materials worked, a feeling for brittleness, strength and workability. Phra SES P1. in (the) feeling: used to describe the qualities of something as perceived by touching it; ‘to the touch’. Cf. to the feel at feel n. 1. n ow rare. a1400 tr. l anfranc Sci. Cirurgie (a shm.) (1894) 305 w hanne it is not hoot in felinge [l . calidum non est actu]. 1544 Bk. Chyldren in T. Phaer tr.

J. g oeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) sig. h.iiij it [sc. the fyre of Saynt a nthonye] is an inflammation of membres with excedyng burnynge and rednesse, harde in the feelynge, [etc.]. 1577 B. g ooge tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii . f. 128 His hyde not hard, or stubborne in feeling [l . corium attactu non asperum ac durum]. 1662 J. d avie S tr. a . o learius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 155 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors it is of a reddish colour, as smooth, and slippery in the feeling as soap. 1669 S.

STURMY Mariners Mag. v . xii. 65 The harder the Corns of Powder are in feeling, by so much the better it is. 1725 R. BRadle Y Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Goat a dark Coat, and very soft in the feeling. 1818 Edinb. Rev. f eb. 301 f orging for them such chains as, soft in feeling as silk, but strong in proof as adamant, will bind them down [etc.]. 1864 d . B. ST. J. Roo Sa tr. a . f . von Tröltsch Dis. Ear xviii. 168 Peculiar red bodies..which were quite hard in feeling, and were firmly attached to the mucous membrane. 1947 Kew Bull. 2 12 Stem 10 to 15 ins. in diam. l eaves rough in feeling.

P2. to hurt the feelings of, to hurt a person's feelings: to offend or upset; to injure emotionally. 1766 J. f o Rd YCe Serm. Young Women ii . viii. 65 How improving soever an acquaintance with life may be found on some accounts, there are instances, in which it will hurt the feelings of the heart. 1776 Parl. Reg. 1775–80 v . 53 They avoided, as much as possible, any explanations that might hurt the feelings of the witness. 1804 l d . n el Son Lett. (1814) ii . 57 d o not hurt my feelings by telling me that i neglect any opportunity. 1894 f . R.

STo CKTon Pomona's Trav. 51 i wouldn't hurt his feelings on the subject of his religion. 1946 C. BUSH Case Second Chance iii. 52 i hated hurting his feelings ... He took it rather well, though. 2004 Weekly World News 1 n ov. 4/1 a ides say that the constant jokes about his intellect hurt the president's feelings. P3. to relieve one's feelings: to release strong

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) (Hide quotations) Categories » emotions such as distress, grief, frustration, or anger by venting or expressing them in some manner (either verbally or physically). 1788 Helena xxvii. 69 Helena ..hastened to her own room, to relieve her feelings by a free indulgence of them. 1850 J. H. n ew Man Lect. Diffic. Anglicans i. ii. 50 They..relieve their feelings by gestures and cries, and startings to and fro. 1884 S. J.

Reid Life Sydney Smith xiii. 342 The muttered growl with which the eclipsed poet relieved his overcharged feelings. 1957 J. BRaine Room at Top (1960) 121 i called her the worst names i could think of,..but it didn't relieve my feelings very much. 1992 l . g o Rdon Shared Lives viii. 174 w hereas the e nglish take comfort in humour, n ew Yorkers relieve their feelings by uninhibited griping. 2009 P. C. w Rede Thirteenth Child (2010) xiv. 150 w hen the aunts caught us hanging over the banister listening, they relieved their feelings by scolding fiercely. P4. era of good feeling: see e Ra n. 4c.

P5. the feeling is mutual: see MUTUal adj. 1c. COmPOun DS C1. g eneral attributive. 1601 n . BRe Ton Soules Heavenly Exercise 46 in the feeling time of thy loue, death was sweete to his imagination. 1720 T. BRad BURY Necessity Contending for Revealed Relig. i. 15 That which is such a burden to your a cquaintance, sits light enough upon you: But there is a feeling-time coming. 1754 a . MURPHY Gray's Inn Jrnl. n o. 66 These, in their f eeling-hours of d istress, are reported to have reproached themselves with their f olly. 1826 w . KiRBY & w . SPen Ce Introd.

Entomol. iii . xxviii. 18 The palpi ..executing the functions of antennæ, which probably induced Treviranus to call them Fühlhörner (f eeling-horns). 1867 Harper's Mag. Mar. 465/2 They remind one very forcibly of the blind man's feeling-stick. 1927 Amer. Mercury May 66/2 it ..yielded the richest harvest of impressions, observations, and feeling-response, which are the stuff of the artist life. 1983 d . f . Mo RSe & P. a . Mo RSe Archaeol.

Central Mississippi Valley ii. 19 o ne of the first recorded uses of the probe or feeling rod for discovering the presence of complete pots. 2007 Sarasota (f lorida) Herald-Tribune (n exis) 14 n ov. B1 d uring the feeling sessions, students give a word to describe their mood for the day. C2. attributive. Military. d esignating an attack, shot, etc., used to draw out or discourage an enemy. Cf. feel v. 15b. n ow rare. a1849 SiR R. w il Son Life (1862) i. ii. 67 So soon as the a ustrian Hussars had fired

feeling, n. : Oxford English Dictionary https://oed.com/view/Entry/68981?rskey=QkM9MC&result=2&isAdvanced=false (Hide quotations) (Hide quotations) with their skirmishers a few feeling shot. 1876 e . H. w iCKHa M tr. Infl. Firearms upon Tactics 47 Those ‘feeling’ attacks ..that the assailant should make in order that he may have time to concentrate his forces. 1945 Highway Traveler a pr. 38/2 The g ermans sensing that you're coming and sending out feeling fire to discourage you. 1975 J. Jone S WW II 89/2 The excitement of having to repel a light, feeling attack of Japanese almost immediately after.

C3. attributive and appositive (in sense 8), as feeling attitude, feeling state, feeling tone, etc. [in feeling-tone after g erman Gefühlston (1794 or earlier), as used by w ilhelm w undt in Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie (1874).] 1883 Mind 8 474 a n ‘affective’ or ‘emotive’, aspect or property—the latter being also called the ‘feeling-tone’ (Gefühlston or Betonung) of the sensation. 1892 J. SUll Y Human Mind i. iv. 8 The proposition that feeling as such has no quality (apart from the feeling-quality itself, agreeableness, disagreeableness) is held by most psychologists. 1893 Proc. 2nd Internat. Congr.

Exper. Psychol. 1892 34 The feeling-tone of belief appeared ..completely neutral, except so far as the subject-matter of belief caused it to have a pleasureable or painful quality. 1894 d . iRon S in Mind 3 93 Under feeling should be included on the one hand pleasure and pain, and on the other that feeling towards the object, which for the present we may call feeling attitude. The term is not unexceptionable, but is used for convenience instead of some such formula as ‘feeling in relation to’. 1901 e . B. TiTCHene R Exper. Psychol. i. i. ii. 54 l ikeness may mean ‘likeness of feeling-effect’. 1906 S.

S. l a URie Synthetica i. 136 This entitative feeling-potency does not contain the ‘modes’ of sense. 1909 w . M. URBan Valuation ii. 37 f eeling or feeling-disposition is always presupposed by desire. 1919 M. K. BRad BY Psycho-anal. 58 Certain unconscious factors ..give the complex its peculiar feeling-tone. 1919 M. K. BRad BY Psycho-anal. 150 a woman who heard the first maroon announcing the a rmistice on n ovember 11th, 1918, responded with an instantaneous feeling-thought. 1920 T. P. n Unn Education 125 f eeling-spread is almost wholly biological imitation. 1920 T.

P. n Unn Education 134 Pugnacity is an example of the instincts in which the feeling-element is a definite emotion. 1920 a . S. PRingle -Pa TTiSon Idea of God 120 The feeling-tone of the secondary qualities and their intimate connexion with the higher emotional life. 1937 Discovery July 216/2 The feeling-values of purple and violet are ‘uncertain’. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 585/2 The type of symptom that is mentioned ..may be based on much more transient feeling-states of the parent towards the child. 2004 Psychol.

Sport & Exercise 5 120 in all three studies, acute exercise improved feeling states regardless of exercise duration. Back to top

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