feeling

See also: Feeling

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːlɪŋ/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfilɪŋ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
• Hyphenation: feel‧ing

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: רָגִישׁ m (ragísh), רְגִישָׁה f (regisha)
• Hungarian: érző (hu), együttérző (hu)
• Japanese: 敏感な (ja) (びんかんな, binkan na)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھۆشە (hoşe)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: 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), dokunaklı (tr) (sense 2nd.)

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. (usually in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.

   Many people still have feelings for their first love.

   • 2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”‎^[1]performed by Chappell Roan:

     You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
     Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
     You can say it's just the way you are
     Make a new excuse, another stupid reason

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

• bad feeling
• feelingful
• feeling in one's waters
• feelingless
• feelingly
• feelingness
• feelpinion
• fellow-feeling, fellow feeling
• floating feeling
• gut feeling
• hard feelings
• hurt feelings
• ill feeling
• misfeeling
• mixed feelings
• nonfeeling
• no sense no feeling
• race feeling
• self-feeling
• sinking feeling
• that tired feeling
• underfeeling
• unfeeling
• where there's no sense there's no feeling

Descendants

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

Translations

sensation

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

  Cantonese: 感覺 / 感觉 (gam² gok³)

  Mandarin: 感覺 / 感觉 (zh) (gǎnjué)

• Czech: pocit (cs) m
• Danish: følelse (da) c
• 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), תְּחוּשָׁה (he) f (tẖushá)
• Hindi: एहसास m (ehsās)
• Hungarian: érzés (hu), érzékelés (hu)
• Icelandic: tilfinning (is) f
• Indonesian: perasaan (id)
• Ingrian: tuntu
• Italian: senso (it) m, sensazione (it) f
• Japanese: 感覚 (ja) (かんかく, kankaku)
• Javanese: rasa (jv)
• Kazakh: сезім (kk) (sezım)
• Khmer: អារម្មណ៍ (km) (ʼaarɑm)
• Korean: 감각(感覺) (ko) (gamgak), 느낌 (ko) (neukkim)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ھەست (ckb) (hest)

  Northern Kurdish: hes (ku), his (ku)

• 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 (ms)
• Moksha: ёжа (joža)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мэдрэмж (mn) (medremž)

• Northern Altai: мэјрээмј (meǰreemǰ), сезим (sezim)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m

  Nynorsk: følelse m

• Old English: ġefrēdnes f
• Pali: vedanā f
• Pashto: احساس (ps) m (ehsās)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِحْساس (fa) (ehsâs), حِس (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)
• Scottish Gaelic: faireachdainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏сећа̄ј m, о̏сјећа̄ј m

  Roman: ȍsećāj m, ȍsjećāj m

• Slovak: pocit m
• Slovene: občutek (sl) m
• Somali: dareen (so)
• Southern Altai: сезим (sezim), туйук (tuyuk), хис (his)
• Spanish: sensación (es) f
• Swedish: sensation (sv) c, känsla (sv) c
• Tagalog: pakiramdam
• Tajik: ҳис (his), эҳсос (ehsos)
• Tatar: хис (tt) (xis)
• Telugu: అనుభూతి (te) (anubhūti)
• Turkish: duygu (tr), hissetme (tr)
• Turkmen: duýgy
• Ukrainian: почуття́ (uk) n (počuttjá)
• Urdu: اِحْساس m (ihsās)
• Uyghur: تۇيغۇ (tuyghu)
• Uzbek: sezgi (uz), his (uz), tuygʻu (uz)
• Vietnamese: cảm giác (vi)
• Welsh: teimlad (cy) m
• Yiddish: געפֿיל n (gefil)

emotion; impression

• Afrikaans: emosie, gevoel
• Arabic: عَاطِفَة f (ʕāṭifa), إِحْسَاس (ar) m (ʔiḥsās)
• Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʻmunkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: duyğu (az), hiss (az)
• 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)
• Ingrian: cuvstva
• Italian: sentimento (it) m, emozione (it) f
• Japanese: 感情 (ja) (かんじょう, kanjō)
• Kapampangan: kapanamdaman, kepanamdaman
• Khmer: អារម្មណ៍ (km) (ʼaarɑm)
• Korean: 감정(感情) (ko) (gamjeong)
• Lao: ຄວາມຮູ້ສຶກ (lo) (khuām hū sưk), ອາລົມ (ʼā lom)
• Latin: sensus (la)
• Latvian: jūtas pl, emocija f
• Lithuanian: jausmas m, emocija f
• Luxembourgish: Gefill (lb) n, Emotioun f
• Malay: hati (ms)
• Maori: kōhengihengi, kōhengi, aurongo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m

  Nynorsk: følelse m

• Old English: ġefrēdnes f
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اِحْساس (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:

  Cyrillic: о̏сећа̄ј m, о̏сјећа̄ј m

  Roman: ȍsećāj m, ȍsjećāj m

• Slovene: občutek (sl) m, čustvo (sl) n
• Spanish: sentimiento (es) m, emoción (es) f, impresión (es) f
• Swedish: känsla (sv) c
• Tajik: эҳсос (ehsos)
• Tatar: хис (tt) (xis)
• 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) (zgacʻmunkʻ)
• Bulgarian: чу́вства (bg) n pl (čúvstva)
• 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: רֶגֶשׁ (he) m (régesh), רְגָשׁוֹת m pl (r'gashót)
• Hungarian: érzések (hu)
• Icelandic: tilfinningar f
• Italian: urtare la suscettibiltà, ferire i sentimenti
• Japanese: 気 (ja) (き, ki)
• Korean: 기(氣) (ko) (gi)
• 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 pl
• Swedish: känslor (sv) c pl
• Welsh: teimladau (cy)

in plural: emotional attraction or desire

• Afrikaans: gevoelens
• Armenian: զգացմունք (hy) (zgacʻmunkʻ)
• Bulgarian: чу́вства (bg) n pl (čúvstva)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戀 / 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: רֶגֶשׁ (he) m (régesh), רְגָשׁוֹת m pl (r'gashót)
• Hungarian: érzelmek (hu)
• Icelandic: tilfinningar f
• Italian: emozioni (it), sensazioni (it)
• Japanese: 恋 (ja) (こい, koi)
• Korean: 연(戀) (ko) (yeon), 련(戀) (ko) (ryeon) (North Korea)
• Luxembourgish: Gefiller n pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelser pl

  Nynorsk: følelsar pl

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

intuition

• Afrikaans: intuïsie, voorgevoel
• Armenian: զգացում (hy) (zgacʻum)
• Bulgarian: усе́щане (bg) n (uséštane)
• 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: הַרְגָּשָׁה f (hargasha)
• Hindi: ख़याल m (xayāl)
• Hungarian: megérzés (hu), intuíció (hu)
• Italian: intuito (it) m, tatto (it)
• Japanese: 直感 (ja) (ちょっかん, chokkan)
• Luxembourgish: Gefill (lb) n, Intuitioun f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: følelse (no) m

  Nynorsk: følelse m

• Old English: ġefrēdnes f
• Polish: uczucie (pl) n
• Portuguese: intuição (pt) f, idéia (pt) f, pressentimento (pt) m
• Russian: предчу́вствие (ru) n (predčúvstvije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̏сећа̄ј m, о̏сјећа̄ј m

  Roman: ȍsećāj m, ȍsjećāj m

• Slovene: občutek (sl) m
• Spanish: intuición (es) f, presentimiento (es) m, corazonada (es) f
• Swedish: känsla (sv) c
• Telugu: అంతర్వాణి (te) (antarvāṇi)
• Urdu: خَیال m (xayāl)
• Welsh: teimlad (cy), greddf

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Verb

feeling

1. present participle and gerund of feel

Derived terms

• feeling no pain

Anagrams

• fine leg, fleeing, flingee

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.liŋ/

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. instinct, hunch

Anagrams

• églefin

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing 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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

Noun

feeling n (plural feelinguri)

1. feeling

Declension

Declension of feeling

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	feeling	feelingul		feelinguri	feelingurile
genitive-dative	feeling	feelingului		feelinguri	feelingurilor
vocative	feelingule			feelingurilor

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• filing

Noun

feeling m

1. feeling, hunch

   Synonym: osjećaj

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilin/ [ˈfi.lĩn]
• Rhymes: -ilin

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.