feels
Experiences through touch
Feels is internet slang for emotions, especially intense or sentimental ones triggered by music, stories, or memories.
To catch feels is to develop romantic feelings, often unexpectedly.
To hit you in the feels is to provoke a strong emotional response: That movie hit me right in the feels.
The deliberate informality signals self-aware emotionality—acknowledging feelings while keeping some ironic distance.
Unproven inner sense
- gutDigestive tract, or instinct
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- inklingSlight, uncertain awareness
- premonitionAdvance sense of future events
suspicion · foreboding · sense · vibe · knowing · sixth sense · foresight · insight
Intense positive emotion
- sadnessState of emotional pain
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- fearEmotional response to threat
- loveIntense fond attachment
happiness · grief · anxiety · hope · despair · guilt · pride · envy
Intuitive sense of mood
- energyPower to do work
- moodPrevailing emotional condition
- auraPerceived emanation surrounding someone
- ambianceMood of surroundings
tone · spirit · undercurrent · tension · heaviness · lightness · warmth · coldness
hunch
Unproven inner sense
premonition · suspicion · foreboding · sense · vibe · knowing · sixth sense · foresight · insight · anticipation
joy
Intense positive emotion
love · happiness · grief · anxiety · hope · despair · guilt · pride · envy · jealousy
vibe
Intuitive sense of mood
ambiance · tone · spirit · undercurrent · tension · heaviness · lightness · warmth · coldness · electricity
desire
Intense wanting
infatuation · ardor · fervor · intensity · burning · fire · craving · ache · devotion · obsession
texture
Surface tactile quality
- softnessYielding to gentle pressure
- roughnessUneven surface quality
- smoothnessFreedom from irregularity
warmth · coldness · pressure · tingling · silkiness · fuzziness · plushness · coarseness · dampness · stickiness
feelsthinks
Engages in mental activity
knows · reasons · calculates · analyzes · deduces
feelsnumbs
Deprives of sensation
deadens · anesthetizes · ignores · suppresses · represses
feelsdoubts
Feelings of uncertainty
disbelieves · questions · challenges · distrusts · disputes
- feel freePermission casually granted
- feel likeDesire informally expressed
- feeling goodPositive emotional condition
- mixed feelingsConflicting emotional responses
- feeling downExperiencing sadness or dejection
- hard feelingsLasting resentment or anger