true feelings
What you authentically experience
True feelings are emotions or sentiments someone genuinely holds, as opposed to what they pretend or claim to feel.
The phrase often implies concealment—true feelings are what someone hides behind politeness, denial, or social performance: She finally revealed her true feelings about the divorce.
To discover someone's true feelings is to get past their public face to what they actually think or want.
- honestFree from deception
- genuineTruly what it claims
- authenticVerified as original
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
- sincereGenuinely felt, not feigned
heart to heart · vulnerable · open up · raw · emotions · soul · inner voice · confession · unfiltered · deep · deep down · hidden · revealed · intimate · candid · lay bare · openness · admission
- hidden thingssecrets, motives, agendas, subtext, undercurrents
- sinceritysincerity, sincere, genuine, genuineness, honesty
- inner selfself, soul, psyche, inner being, real self
- thoughtsthought, idea, thoughts, ideas, thinking
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- emotional opennessvulnerability, honesty, trust, sharing, empathy
true feelingspretense
Deceptive outward show
facade · put-on · affectation · crocodile tears · lip service
true feelingspoker face
Intentionally expressionless look
stoicism · emotional restraint · stiff upper lip · reserve · reticence
true feelingspassing fancy
Temporary, shallow attraction
shallow emotions · whims · knee-jerk reactions · snap judgments
true, truly, truths, truthful, truthfully, truthfulness, untrue, truism, truer