feeling

See also: Feeling

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːlɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfilɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ

Adjective

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

emotionally sensitive

• Afrikaans: gevoelig, sensitief
• Catalan: sentimental (ca)
• Dutch: gevoelig (nl)
• Esperanto: sentema
• Finnish: tunteellinen (fi), herkkä (fi)
• French: sentimental (fr)
• Galician: sentimental m or f
• German: einfühlsam (de), gefühlvoll (de)
• Hebrew: רגיש‎ m (ragish), רגישה‎ f (regisha)
• Hungarian: érző (hu), együttérző (hu)
• Japanese: 敏感 (ja) (binkan)

• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھۆشە‎ (hoşe)

• Norwegian: følsom (no)
• Portuguese: sentimental (pt) m or f, emotivo (pt), sensível (pt) m or f
• Romanian: sentimental (ro)
• Russian: чувстви́тельный (ru) (čuvstvítelʹnyj)
• Spanish: sentimental (es)
• Swedish: känslig (sv) c, känsligt (sv) n
• Turkish: duygusal (tr), duyarlı (tr), hassas (tr)

Noun

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.

   • 1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:

     Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you

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

Terms derived from feeling (noun)

• fellow feeling
• hard feelings
• hurt feelings
• ill feeling
• mixed feelings
• no sense no feeling

 

Descendants

• → French: feeling
• → German: Feeling
• → Italian: feeling
• → Spanish: feeling

Translations

sensation

• Afrikaans: gevoel, sensasie
• Albanian: ndjenjë (sq) f
• Arabic: شُعُور‎ pl (šuʿūr)
• Armenian: զգացում (hy) (zgacʿum)
• Azerbaijani: hiss (az), duyğu (az)
• Bashkir: тойғо (toyğo)
• Bavarian: Gfui
• Belarusian: пачуццё (be) n (pačuccjó)
• Bengali: আবেগ (abeg)
• Bulgarian: осеза́ние (bg) n (osezánie), чу́вство (bg) n (čúvstvo), усещане (bg) n (useštane)
• Burmese: ဝေဒနာ (my) (weda.na)
• Catalan: sensació (ca) f
• Central Franconian: Jeföhl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 感覺 (gam² gok³)

  Mandarin: 感覺 (zh), 感觉 (zh) (gǎnjué)

• Czech: pocit (cs) m
• Danish: følelse (da)
• Dutch: gevoel (nl) n
• Esperanto: sento
• Estonian: tunne
• Finnish: tunne (fi), tuntemus (fi), tuntu (fi), olo (fi)
• French: sensation (fr) f
• Galician: sensación (gl) f
• Georgian: გრძნობა (grʒnoba)
• German: Gefühl (de) n

  Alemannic German: Gfüül n

• Greek: αίσθηση (el) f (aísthisi)
• Hebrew: הַרְגָּשָׁה‎ f (hargashá)
• Hindi: एहसास m (ehsās)
• Hungarian: érzés (hu), érzékelés (hu)
• Icelandic: tilfinning (is) f
• Indonesian: perasaan (id)
• Italian: senso (it) m, sensazione (it) f
• Japanese: 感覚 (ja) (かんかく, kankaku)
• Javanese: rasa (jv)
• Kazakh: сезім (kk) (sezim)
• Khmer: អារម្មណ៍ (km) (ʼaarɑm)
• Korean: 감각 (ko) (gamgak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەست‎ (ku) (hest)

• Kyrgyz: сезим (ky) (sezim)
• Lao: ຄວາມຮູ້ສຶກ (lo) (khuām hū sưk)
• Latgalian: pajautys
• Latvian: sajūta f, jūtas
• Lithuanian: pojūtis m, jutimas m
• Luxembourgish: Gefill (lb) n
• Macedonian: чувство n (čuvstvo)
• Malay: perasaan
• Mongolian: мэдрэмж (mn) (medremj)
• Northern Altai: мэјрээмј (meǰreemǰ), сезиҥ (seziŋ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m

  Nynorsk: følelse m

• Old English: ġefrēdnes f
• Pali: vedanā f
• Persian: احساس‎ (fa) (ehsâs), حس‎ (fa) (hes)
• Plautdietsch: Jefeel n
• Polish: uczucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sensação (pt) f
• Romanian: sentiment (ro) n, sentimente n pl, simțământ (ro) n
• Russian: ощуще́ние (ru) n (oščuščénije), чу́вство (ru) n (čúvstvo) (pronounced "čústvo")
• Scottish Gaelic: faireachdainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осећај m, ocjeћaj m

  Roman: osećaj (sh) m, osjećaj (sh) m

• Slovak: pocit m
• Slovene: občutek (sl) m
• Southern Altai: сезим (sezim), туйгу (tuygu), хис (his)
• Spanish: sensación (es)
• Swedish: sensation (sv) c, känsla (sv) c
• Tagalog: pakiramdam
• Tajik: ҳис (his)
• Telugu: అనుభూతి (te) (anubhūti)
• Turkish: duygu (tr), hissetme (tr)
• Turkmen: duýgy
• Ukrainian: почуття́ (uk) n (počuttjá)
• Uyghur: تۇيغۇ‎ (tuyghu)
• Uzbek: sezgi (uz), his (uz), tuygʻu (uz)
• Vietnamese: cảm giác (vi)
• Welsh: teimlad (cy) m
• Yiddish: געפֿיל‎ n (gefil)

emotion

• Afrikaans: emosie, gevoel
• Arabic: عَاطِفَة‎ f (ʿāṭifa), إِحْسَاس‎ (ar) m (ʾiḥsās)
• Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʿmunkʿ)
• Bashkir: тойғо (toyğo), хис (xis)
• Belarusian: пачуццё (be) n (pačuccjó), эмо́цыя f (emócyja)
• Bulgarian: чу́вство (bg) n (čúvstvo), емо́ция (bg) f (emócija)
• Catalan: sentiment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 感情 (gam² cing⁴)

  Mandarin: 感情 (zh) (gǎnqíng)

• Czech: cit (cs) m
• Dutch: gevoel (nl) n, emotie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sento, emocio, impreso, opinio
• Estonian: meeleolu
• Finnish: tunne (fi), tuntemus (fi)
• French: sentiment (fr) m, émotion (fr) f
• Galician: emoción (gl) f
• German: Gefühl (de) n, Emotion (de) f
• Greek: συναίσθημα (el) n (synaísthima)

  Ancient: πάθος n (páthos)

• Haitian Creole: santiman
• Hebrew: הַרְגָּשָׁה‎ f (hargashá)
• Hindi: जज़्बात m pl (jazbāt), भावना (hi) f (bhāvnā)
• Hungarian: érzelem (hu), érzés (hu)
• Italian: sentimento (it) m, emozione (it) f
• Japanese: 感情 (ja) (かんじょう, kanjō)
• Khmer: អារម្មណ៍ (km) (ʼaarɑm)
• Korean: 감정 (ko) (gamjeong)

• Lao: ຄວາມຮູ້ສຶກ (lo) (khuām hū sưk), ອາລົມ (ʼā lom)
• Latvian: jūtas pl, emocija f
• Lithuanian: jausmas m, emocija f
• Luxembourgish: Gefill (lb) n, Emotioun f
• Malay: hati (ms)
• Maori: kōhengihengi, kōhengi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m

  Nynorsk: følelse m

• Old English: ġefrēdnes f
• Persian: احساس‎ (fa) (ehsâs)
• Plautdietsch: Jefeel n
• Polish: uczucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: emoção (pt) f, impressão (pt) f, sentimento (pt)
• Romanian: sentiment (ro) n, sentimente n pl
• Russian: чу́вство (ru) n (čúvstvo), эмо́ция (ru) f (emócija)
• Scottish Gaelic: faireachdainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: osjećaj (sh) m, ocjeћaj m

• Slovene: občutek (sl) m, čustvo (sl) n
• Spanish: sentimiento (es) m, emoción (es) f
• Swedish: känsla (sv) c
• Tajik: эҳсос (ehsos)
• Telugu: భావం (te) (bhāvaṁ)
• Thai: ความรู้สึก (th) (kwaam-rúu-sʉ̀k), อารมณ์ (th) (aa-rom)
• Tocharian B: eṅkäl
• Turkish: duygu (tr), his (tr)
• Ukrainian: почуття́ (uk) n (počuttjá), емо́ція f (emócija)
• Vietnamese: cảm xúc (vi)
• Welsh: teimlad (cy) m
• Yiddish: געפֿיל‎ n (gefil)

in plural: emotional state or well-being

• Afrikaans: emosies, gevoelens
• Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʿmunkʿ)
• Bulgarian: чувства (bg) pl (čuvstva)
• Czech: city (cs) m
• Dutch: gevoelens (nl) n pl
• Esperanto: sentoj (eo), emocioj
• Estonian: tunne
• Finnish: tunteet (fi) pl
• French: sentiments (fr) m pl
• Galician: sentimentos m pl
• German: Gefühle (de) n pl
• Greek: συναίσθημα (el) n (synaísthima)
• Hebrew: רגש‎ (he) m (regesh), רגשות‎ m pl (regashot)
• Hungarian: érzések (hu)

• Icelandic: tilfinningar f
• Italian: urtare la suscettibiltà, ferire i sentimenti
• Japanese: 気 (ja) (き, ki)
• Luxembourgish: Gefiller n pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelser pl

  Nynorsk: følelsar pl

• Polish: uczucie (pl) n, uczucia pl
• Portuguese: sentimentos (pt) m pl
• Russian: го́рдость (ru) f (górdostʹ), самолю́бие (ru) n (samoljúbije)
• Spanish: sentimientos (es) m
• Swedish: känslor (sv) c pl
• Welsh: teimladau (cy)

in plural: emotional attraction or desire

• Afrikaans: gevoelens
• Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʿmunkʿ)
• Bulgarian: чувства (bg) pl (čuvstva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戀 (zh), 恋 (zh) (liàn)

• Dutch: gevoelens (nl) n pl
• Esperanto: amsento
• Finnish: tunteet (fi) pl
• French: sentiments (fr) m pl
• Galician: sentimentos m pl
• German: Gefühle (de) n pl
• Hebrew: רגש‎ (he) m (regesh), רגשות‎ m pl (regashot)
• Hungarian: érzelmek (hu)

• Icelandic: tilfinningar f
• Italian: emozioni (it), sensazioni (it)
• Japanese: 恋 (ja) (こい, koi)
• Luxembourgish: Gefiller n pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelser pl

  Nynorsk: følelsar pl

• Portuguese: sentimentos (pt) m pl por...
• Russian: симпа́тия (ru) f (simpátija), чу́вство (ru) n (čúvstvo)
• Spanish: sentimientos (es)
• Swedish: känslor (sv) c pl
• Welsh: teimladau (cy)

intuition

• Afrikaans: intuïsie, voorgevoel
• Armenian: զգացում (hy) (zgacʿum)
• Bulgarian: усещане (bg) n (useštane)
• Catalan: intuïció (ca) f, pressentiment (ca) m
• Czech: pocit (cs)
• Dutch: voorgevoel (nl) n
• Esperanto: sentemeco, natura talento
• Finnish: tunne (fi)
• French: sentiment (fr) m, intuition (fr) f, impression (fr) f
• Galician: intuición (gl) f
• German: Gefühl (de) n
• Hebrew: הרגשה‎ f (hargasha)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} ख़याल (xayāl)
• Hungarian: megérzés (hu), intuíció (hu)

• Italian: intuito (it) m, tatto (it)
• Japanese: 直感 (ja) (chokkan)
• Luxembourgish: Gefill (lb) n, Intuitioun f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m

  Nynorsk: følelse m

• Old English: ġefrēdnes f
• Portuguese: intuição (pt) f, idéia (pt) f, pressentimento (pt) m
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije)
• Serbo-Croatian: osjećaj (sh) m, ocjeћaj m
• Slovene: občutek (sl) m
• Spanish: intuición (es), presentimiento (es) m, corazonada (es) f
• Swedish: känsla (sv) c
• Telugu: అంతర్వాణి (te) (antarvāṇi)
• Welsh: teimlad (cy), greddf

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• Slovak: (1,2,5) ^{(please verify)} pocit m

Verb

feeling

1. present participle of feel

Derived terms

• feeling no pain

Anagrams

• fine leg, fleeing, flingee

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.liŋ/

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. instinct, hunch

Anagrams

• églefin

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.linɡ/, /ˈfi.lin/
• Rhymes: -ilinɡ, -ilin

Noun

feeling m (invariable)

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• filing

Noun

feeling m

1. feeling, hunch

Synonyms

• osjećaj

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilin/, [ˈfi.lĩn]

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

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

Usage notes

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.