feeling
Emotion you sense
Feeling covers both physical sensation and emotional experience.
You might have no feeling in your fingertips, or have strong feelings about politics.
A feeling can be an intuition: I have a feeling something's wrong.
As an adjective, feeling describes someone emotionally sensitive or compassionate.
To hurt someone's feelings is to wound their emotional state.
No hard feelings dismisses lingering resentment.
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
sense · suspicion · foreboding · presentiment · insight · inner voice · gut instinct · notion
Perceived stimulus or phenomenon
- touchPerceiving through physical contact
- warmthHeat you feel
- coldnessLow temperature state
- pressureForce upon contact
pain · numbness · tingle · itch · throb · sting · prickle · burn
Intuitive sense of mood
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- ambianceMood of surroundings
- auraPerceived emanation surrounding someone
- energyPower to do work
tone · air · spirit · character · climate · tenor · essence · quality
Intense emotional warmth
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- zealIntense driving devotion
- intensityStrength or force level
- desireIntense wanting
yearning · longing · devotion · enthusiasm · fire · heat · burning · eagerness
Joyful emotional state
- sadnessState of emotional pain
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- fearEmotional response to threat
- joyIntense positive emotion
love · anxiety · grief · elation · melancholy · rage · serenity · guilt
Felt attitude or view
- beliefTrust held as true
- attitudeSettled way of thinking
- viewWhat's seen from somewhere
- sensePerception or judgment
impression · conviction · notion · stance · position · perspective · outlook · thought
hunch
Unproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
inkling · sense · suspicion · foreboding · presentiment · insight · inner voice · gut instinct · notion · impression
sensation
Perceived stimulus or phenomenon
pressure · pain · numbness · tingle · itch · throb · sting · prickle · burn · softness
vibe
Intuitive sense of mood
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- ambianceMood of surroundings
- auraPerceived emanation surrounding someone
energy · tone · air · spirit · character · climate · tenor · essence · quality · sense
ardor
Intense emotional warmth
desire · yearning · longing · devotion · enthusiasm · fire · heat · burning · eagerness · infatuation
happiness
Joyful emotional state
joy · love · anxiety · grief · elation · melancholy · rage · serenity · guilt · shame
sentiment
Felt attitude or view
sense · impression · conviction · notion · stance · position · perspective · outlook · thought · judgment
- gerundswalking, running, talking, eating, sleeping
- experiencesadventure, journey, moment, event, emotion
- feelingsemotion, pleasure, joy, anger, sadness
- mindmind, thought, cognition, consciousness, thinking
- sensessight, smell, taste, hearing, touch
- human conceptsconsciousness, awareness, identity, self, emotion
feelingunfeeling
Without compassion or emotion
coldness · coldheartedness · heartlessness · callousness · insensitivity
feelingnumbness
Loss of sensation
insensibility · anesthesia · insensate · paralysis · deadness
- feeling goodPositive emotional condition
- mixed feelingsConflicting emotional responses
- feeling downExperiencing sadness or dejection
- hard feelingsLasting resentment or anger
- no hard feelingsAbsence of lingering resentment
- feeling blueExperiencing mild sadness