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Feelings

noun

1.

Emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity).

Feeling

noun

1.

The experiencing of affective and emotional states. "He had terrible feelings of guilt" , "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"

2.

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed. Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion. "What are your feelings about the crisis?" , "It strengthened my belief in his sincerity" , "I had a feeling that she was lying"

3.

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people. Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone. "A clergyman improved the tone of the meeting" , "It had the smell of treason"

4.

A physical sensation that you experience. "I had a strange feeling in my leg" , "He lost all feeling in his arm"

5.

The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin. Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation. "The surface had a greasy feeling"

6.

An intuitive understanding of something. Synonym: intuitive feeling.

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"Feelings" Quotes from Famous Books

... not take to his heart the heartless wife which she had frankly admitted she must be if he married her; and Della had, unwittingly, skillfully touched a tender chord, when she made the appeal to his feelings which she did. He had felt the force of her reasoning, and had been delighted with her frankness and her confidence; though it pained him to relinquish her, he was too much a soldier to display his wounds; and, though he parted from her nominally ...

— The Brother Clerks - A Tale of New-Orleans • Xariffa

... of the origin of moral ideas—the Utilitarian School held that they could be traced to experience; and by 'experience' they meant in the last resort sense-perceptions and the feelings of pleasure and of pain which accompany or follow sense-perception. All the facts of our moral consciousness, therefore,—the knowledge of right and wrong, the judgments of conscience, the recognition of duty and responsibility, the feelings of reverence, remorse, and moral ...

— Recent Tendencies in Ethics • William Ritchie Sorley

... wounded your feelings. I did not consider your delicacy. There were misunderstandings between us. The reason was, we have not the same temperament. And then, I did not know how to amuse you. I did not know how to give you the amusement you need. I did not procure for you the pleasures that a woman as intelligent ...

— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet

... has taken much medicine, under the direction of eminent physicians, sometimes with temporary relief, but most commonly without any. The exercise of walking slowly, in pleasant weather, although it increases the palpitations at the moment, is followed with relief from the distressing feelings, which are increased when she sits still for a long time. She has no suspicion of her hopeless situation, and confidently expects relief from medicine, yet labours under a melancholy ...

— Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart • John Collins Warren

... undercurrent of intense feeling seemed to carry him along—and his hearers along with him—as he spoke. He did not shout or gesticulate: that made him all the more impressive. He did not speak of himself or his own feelings: that enabled his hearers to give undistracted attention to the message he had to deliver. He did not energise. On the contrary, it seemed as if he had some difficulty in restraining the superabundant energy ...

— Post Haste • R.M. Ballantyne

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