feeling
/ˈfiː.lɪŋ/ · adj
Meaning
- Emotionally sensitive.
- Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
- Sensation, particularly through the skin.
- Emotion; impression.
- Emotional state or well-being.
- Emotional attraction or desire.
- Intuition.
- An opinion, an attitude.
- present participle and gerund of feel
Etymology / origin
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
- felynge(Middle English)→
- feeling (English)
- Relations: inh
Related words
Descendant words
- filin(English) (der)
- fiilinki(Finnish) (bor)
- feeling(French) (bor)
- Feeling(German) (bor)
- フィーリング(Japanese) (bor)
- филинг(Macedonian) (bor)
- filin(Spanish) (der)
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