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Antonyms for feeling
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : fee-ling |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfi lɪŋ |
Definition of feeling
Origin :- late 12c., "act of touching, sense of touch," verbal noun from feel (v.). Meaning "emotion" is mid-14c. Meaning "what one feels (about something), opinion" is from mid-15c. Meaning "capacity to feel" is from 1580s. Related: Feelingly.
- noun sensation, especially of touch
- noun idea, impression
- noun a state of mind, often strong
- noun ambience
- But among the veteran speculators the feeling was conservative.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- For an hour he watched her, feeling the arm on which she lay growing numb.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He went back to his hotel, and feeling hungry, made a substantial meal.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- Feeling sure that there was no one on the island but himself, he thought he was deceived.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- This was the new train of feeling suggested by new circumstances.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- The feeling then was reciprocal, and he was proposed for the vacant seat.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- I met only with insult for this—Bella has not a feeling heart.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- All the same, the episode left her with a feeling of insecurity.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- But she could not get her mother's feeling of him as a helpless, dependent thing.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- There was but one feeling,—that England had lost one of her most illustrious statesmen.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
Synonyms for feeling
- action
- activity
- affection
- air
- appreciation
- apprehension
- ardor
- atmosphere
- aura
- awareness
- behavior
- belief
- capacity
- compassion
- concern
- consciousness
- conviction
- cultivation
- culture
- delicacy
- discernment
- discrimination
- emotion
- empathy
- enjoyment
- excitability
- excitation
- excitement
- eye
- faculty
- feel
- fervor
- fondness
- heat
- hunch
- imagination
- impression
- imprint
- inclination
- inkling
- innervation
- instinct
- intelligence
- intensity
- intuition
- judgment
- keenness
- mind
- mood
- motility
- motor response
- notion
- opinion
- outlook
- pain
- palpability
- passion
- pathos
- perceiving
- perception
- persuasion
- pity
- pleasure
- point of view
- presentiment
- quality
- reaction
- receptivity
- refinement
- reflex
- responsiveness
- semblance
- sense
- sensibility
- sensitivity
- sensuality
- sentiment
- sentimentality
- sharpness
- spirit
- suspicion
- sympathy
- tactility
- tangibility
- taste
- tenderness
- thought
- titillation
- understanding
- view
- warmth
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