See also: Feeling

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)

  1. Emotionally sensitive.
    Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
  2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
    He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

Translations edit

Noun edit

feeling (plural feelings)

  1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
    The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
  2. Emotion; impression.
    The house gave me a feeling of dread.
    • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:
      Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
  3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
    You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
  4. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
    Many people still have feelings for their first love.
  5. 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.
  6. An opinion, an attitude.
    • 1972, George J. W. Goodman (Adam Smith), Supermoney, page 156:
      When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • French: feeling
  • German: Feeling
  • Japanese: フィーリング
  • Italian: feeling
  • Spanish: feeling

Translations edit

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Verb edit

feeling

  1. present participle and gerund of feel

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French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

feeling m (plural feelings)

  1. instinct, hunch

Anagrams edit

Italian edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

feeling m (invariable)

  1. an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling

References edit

  1. ^ feeling in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

Noun edit

feeling n (plural feelinguri)

  1. feeling

Declension edit

References edit

  • feeling in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

feeling m

  1. feeling, hunch
    Synonym: osjećaj

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

feeling m (plural feelings)

  1. feeling, hunch
  2. spark; attraction; feeling

Usage notes edit

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.