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Feeling

Definition: Feeling

Feeling

Noun

1. The psychological feature of experiencing affective and emotional states; "he had a feeling of euphoria".

2. A vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "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; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason".

4. A physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "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; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling".

6. An intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "feeling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Feeling

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A feeling is a sensation related to one of several senses (tactition, thermoception, nociception, equilibrioception, proprioception, see also qualia) or is an emotion.

In the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, feeling means you tend to put a higher priority on personal factors than impersonal factors.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Feeling."

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Synonyms: Feeling

Synonyms: belief (n), feel (n), flavor (n), flavour (n), impression (n), look (n), notion (n), opinion (n), smell (n), spirit (n), tactile sensation (n), tactual sensation (n), tone (n), touch (n), touch sensation (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Feeling

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Physical Sensibility

Noun: sensibility; sensitiveness. Adjective: physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics; moral sensibility .

Touch

Noun: touch; tact, taction, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation; massage.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Feeling

English words defined with "feeling": sinking feeling. (references)
Specialty definitions using "feeling": Addison of the North, akathisia, Ascapart, AuctionBACCHUS, Beating about the Bush, Beautiful, Beautifully, BOARD-MACHINE SET-UP OPERATOR, breakoff phenomenon, BRIQUETTING-MACHINE OPERATORC Programmer's Disease, Cain't -hep- it's, chip mixer, CHIP-MIXING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Cognitive rehearsal, Contempt, Cue avoidanceDoricourt, DRIER TENDER, dysphoric mood, Dyspnea, ParoxysmalEcstasy, Employee Grievancesfeeling for fire, First Gentleman of Europe, Foot Care, FUBARGastric banding, Gautier, Globus Sensation, glue-mixer operator, glue-plant operator, GOOSE, gronkedhacker humor, hacker humour, Hallucinogens, Heart, Heart in his Mouth, Heebie Jeebies, HOSTILITY, How Manly, hunger painIlluminationJaws, Jejuno-ileostomylap hand, tool, LAPPER, HAND, TOOL, Lazy, Levator SyndromeMan of Feeling, Mass Behavior, Mental DisordersNIB FINISHER, NIB INSPECTOR, nut-dehydrator operatorOmissionPall-bearer, pellet-press operator, Pharmacotherapy, Philistine, Pincers, Politician, precision lap hand, PSYCHOLOGIST, EXPERIMENTAL, PSYCHOLOGIST, SOCIAL, Psychomotor Agitation, Pulse, Put the hammer downROLL TENDER, RoqueSalutations, Satan, satiety, Seven Senses, Shot, SYMPATHYTeeth, threshold of discomfort, threshold of feeling, threshold of pain, threshold of tickle, TOUCH, trunkyWailing-place, Jews', welder's eyes, What the Frag?. (references)
Etymologies containing "feeling": Feel. (references)

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Modern Usage: Feeling

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Being inside another skin--Thinking differently, moving differently, feeling differently (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

No. But I'm feeling very unhappy (Stuart Little 2; writing credit: E.B. White; Douglas Wick)

I really have a bad feeling about this (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

The druggist said you can tell how old she is by feeling her teeth (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr)

Lyrics

I can't fight this feeling any longer (Can't Fight This Feeling; performing artist: REO Speedwagon)

Now, you kinda lose all feeling (The Dean And I; performing artist: 10CC)

Then I start feeling a little peculiar (What's up; performing artist: 4 Non Blondes)

And if you're feeling down, he'll pick you up (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner)

Lying close to you feeling your heart beating (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH)

Clever

Deja moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before! (references; author: unknown)

If something doesn't feel right, you're not feeling the right thing. (references; author: unknown)

Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

That Sinking Feeling (1973)

Loving Feeling (1968)

What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (1968)

That Funny Feeling (1965)

With Feeling Once More (1960)

Song Titles

Flashdance...What A Feeling (performing artist: Irene Cara)

Why They Call It Feeling (performing artist: Lee Ann Womack)

Can't Fight This Feeling (performing artist: REO Speedwagon)

You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling (performing artist: The Righteous Brothers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Feeling

DomainTitle

Books

  • Diane Irons' 14-Day Beauty Boot Camp: The Crash Course To Looking and Feeling Great w/ one Audio CD (reference)

  • Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy (reference)

  • Interviewing: More Than a Gut Feeling (Ami One Hour Series) (reference)

  • Thinking, Feeling, and Being: Clinical Reflections on the Fundamental Antinomy of Human Beings and World (New Library of Psychoanalysis, 5) (reference)

  • I Like Being Me: Poems for Children, About Feeling Special, Appreciating Others, and Getting Along (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Feeling

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Photo Album: Feeling

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Feeling. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Are you feeling down in the mouth?. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Milo Brant had a feeling that he was lonesome and afraid. Credit: Library of Congress.

There is considerable hard feeling among members of the literary club. Credit: Library of Congress.

What a grand and glorious feeling to give some others a chance!. Credit: Library of Congress.

That blue Sunday feeling. Credit: Library of Congress.

Crude wooden crosses on the hillside in the Spanish-American country. These crosses are often seen here, sometimes they mark graves and sometimes have been erected as symbols of religious feeling. Taos County, near Embudo, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Side Glances. "You're not feeling well this morning Mrs. Morton, you haven't insulted any of my vegetables yet". Credit: Library of Congress.

Success in war - depends on co-operation and good feeling between the captains and privates in our volunteer, wage-paid American industrial army now stationed at - Fort Factory. Credit: Library of Congress.

I live not in myself, but I become a portion of that around me; and to me high mountains are a feeling, and the hum of human cities torture --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Feeling
 

"Feeling blue?" by Noie Shives
Commentary: "Just some blue sugary beverage, probably fearing for its life as I went to drink it. :)."
"Feeling Scared" by T. Al Nakib
Commentary: "A little bit of photography at night."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Feeling".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Piano arpeggios and eerie digital sounds creating a tense and unsettled feeling.Ominous melody with repeating rhythm creating an unsettled feeling.
Harp arpeggios and sustained horns creating an unsettled feeling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Feeling

AuthorQuotation

George William Curtis

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Laurence Sterne

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Mortimer Collins

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Quintilian

For it is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

Rousseau

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Thackeray

Benevolent feeling ennobles the most trifling actions.

Thomas Carlyle

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Feeling

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

But whatever flatterers may talk to amuse people's understandings, it hinders not men from feeling; and when they perceive, that any man, in what station soever, is out of the bounds of the civil society which they are of, and that they have no appeal on earth against any harm, they may receive from him, they are apt to think themselves in the state of nature, in respect of him whom they find to be so; and to take care, as soon as they can, to have that safety and security in civil society, for which it was first instituted, and for which only they entered into it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Feeling

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

He thanked her with all his heart, and continued some time to speak with serious feeling of his gratitude and happiness

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Carroll, Lewis

But, whatever the feeling was, it is dead now.

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

An irresistible feeling kept Hester near the spot

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

A wonderful feeling springs up within him, forgetfulness of self, and pity for all.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Stephen saw it sink as he had seen many another, feeling its heaviness depress his heart

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He stopped, feeling lonely in the long speech

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Feeling

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Dizziness or feeling faint. (references)

Falling or a feeling of falling. (references)

Lightheadedness or feeling woozy. (references)

Business

The clone market is also growing fast, fueled by price sensitive consumers feeling the pinch of an economic slump. (references)

Another important consideration for Kuwaitis is the availability of a support system that can address the need for a feeling of community. (references)

Private hospitals, feeling the pressure of free-market competition, are seeing a need to expand and provide better services for heart patients. (references)

Civil Liberties

Gambia

The Director of Press sent a clarification to Radio Gambia, accusing the journalist of "reporting the President's statement out of context." Gomez refused to publish the clarification, reportedly feeling that doing so would harm his professional credibility. (references)

Economic History

Samoa

Samoa had been known simply as Samoa in the United Nations since joining the organization in 1976. The neighboring U.S. territory of American Samoa protested the move, feeling that the change diminished its own Samoan identity. (references)

Yemen

The international multilateral and bilateral donor community, while feeling the growing global pinch on development resources, has continued to support Yemen with approximately $1.8 billion in economic assistance pledges over the next several years. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

On March 1, he had no feeling in his legs when he was taken to the Air Force Central Hospital; his spinal column was injured and he was unable to walk normally at year's end. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

However, in practice indigenous Australians continue to experience significantly higher rates of imprisonment, inferior access to medical and educational institutions, greatly reduced life expectancy rates, elevated levels of unemployment, and general discrimination, which contribute to a feeling of powerlessness. (references)

Minorities

Iraq

In 2000 Christians reported feeling caught in the middle of intra-Kurdish fighting. (references)

Political Economy

Guinea

The border attacks have fostered a feeling of great insecurity and many people have put major investments on hold until the security situation is more clear. (references)

PANAMA

These conditions, a protectionist retreat in some areas of trade, the loss of momentum in privatization, along with several unresolved Government of Panama investment disputes and concerns with major foreign investors, have created a feeling of uncertainty about Panama's business prospects and have slowed new investment. (references)

Travel

Slovak Rep

Successful business in Slovakia generally requires the establishment of a good personal relationship and a feeling of mutual trust. (references)

Worker Rights

Tanzania

Union membership declined during the year primarily due to the growth in the informal sector and the general feeling that unions remain ineffective. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Feeling

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Alexander Benedetto

Right. I say that only because Lois had told me two days prior that people were after her and she was feeling uncomfortable on the island and that the locals were not taking well to her.

Mattie Stepanek

I'm feeling good. But I still have blood coming out of my trachea. And that's going to be a problem. So I'm going to go back into the hospital tomorrow morning.

Rich Cohen

Yeah. It's a great thing about a book. It could just be about, you know, the feeling of a summer day that never ends. And a movie's about, I think, a lot of it is about the language and the way people talk.

Samantha Geimer

Well, I tried to take a girlfriend along because I was feeling uncomfortable. But he kind of at the last minute asked her not to go.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Feeling

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

George Washington

1789-1797The actual liberation of all our citizens who were prisoners in Algiers, while it gratifies every feeling of heart, is itself an earnest of a satisfactory termination of the whole negotiation.

William H. Taft

1909-1913I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South and the other sections of the country.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989On the international scene, we had an uncomfortable feeling that we'd lost the respect of friend and foe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Feeling

"Feeling" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.81% of the time. "Feeling" is used about 10,306 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)57.81%5,9581,638
Lexical Verb (-ing form)42.19%4,3482,259
                    Total100.00%10,306N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Feeling

The following table summarizes the usage of "feeling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
FeelingLast name10085,238
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Feeling

Expressions using "feeling": bad feeling be devoid of feeling bitter feeling cherish feeling class feeling delicacy of feeling excitation of feeling faint feeling feeling calm feeling for fire feeling for language feeling for order feeling guilt Feeling ill feeling of affinity feeling of being full feeling of inferiority feeling of loneliness feeling of movement feeling of nausea feeling of obligation feeling of solidarity feeling of triumph Feeling of unsatisfying sleep fellow feeling give utterance to a feeling good feeling have a feeling have feeling have the feeling holiday feeling hurt one's feeling i am feeling nohow ill feeling indescribable feeling inferiority feeling Monday feeling religious feeling show of feeling sinking feeling subjugation of feeling threshold of feeling tickling feeling with feeling. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "feeling": feeling-behind, feeling-expression, feeling-hate, feeling-level, feeling-tone.

Ending with "feeling": ill-feeling.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Feeling

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

feeling freaky

241

you ve lost that loving feeling

24

feeling

192

deja feeling vu

23

feeling get high tide

109

feeling minnesota

23

feeling good

99

feeling words

22

once more with feeling

95

feeling tired

21

hooked on a feeling

75

feeling left lyrics

21

more than a feeling

50

that old feeling

19

boston more than a feeling

43

feeling lost loving lyrics that ve

17

feeling left out

40

booty feeling

17

feeling up

39

can feeling fight t this

17

feeling lyrics

39

cannon feeling freaky nick

17

boston more than a feeling lyrics

38

feeling dizzy

16

feeling freaky lyrics

34

blue feeling

16

feeling hooked lyrics

32

feeling down

16

cannon feeling freaky lyrics nick

31

feeling unnamed

16

feeling lyrics more once

30

you ve lost that lovin feeling

15

feeling lyrics more than

30

you feeling today

15

buffy feeling more once

30

buffy feeling more once slayer vampire

14

attractive comfortabl cool feeling hot keep look that

26

get to the feeling

14

can feeling fight lyrics reo speedwagon t this

25

bloated feeling

13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Feeling

Language Translations for "feeling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vetëdijë (conscience, consciousness), shqetësim (affliction, agitation, anxiety, bother, care, concern, discomfort, discomposure, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturbance, fash, fear, fidget, flurry, fret, Fry, harassment, inconvenience, inquietude, moil, perturbation, plague, preoccupation, qualm, restlessness, solicitude, trepidation, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uneasiness, unrest, vexation, worry), prekje (affection, contact, fingering, handling, palpation, Tig, touch, touching), parandjenjë (foreboding, misdoubt, presage, prescience, prevision), ndjesi (sensation, sense, sexiness), ndjeshmëri (delicacy, empathy, eroticism, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentience, susceptibility, tenderness), ndjenjë (emotion, passion, sensation, sense, sentiment, vibes), ndijim, emocion (emotion, pulse, stage fright, thrill). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مشاعر (susceptibility), ‏حنون (affectionate, compassionate, fond, kind, merciful, motherly, pitying, soft-hearted, soulful, tender, tender-hearted, whole-hearted), ‏حنو (pity), ‏حساس (compassionate, critical, emotional, fine, hypersensitive, impressionable, maudlin, responsive, sensational, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sentiment, sentimental, susceptible, sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tender-hearted, ticklish), ‏حس (feel, sensation), ‏حاسة اللمس (sense of touch), ‏حاس (percipient), ‏عاطفة (affect, affection, chord, emotion, passion, poignancy, pulse, sentiment), ‏جو عام, ‏الوجدان (affection), ‏إحساس (emotion, feel, sensation, sense, sensibility), ‏إعتقاد (faith, opinion), ‏رأي (consideration, deliverance, idea, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, persuasion, saw, say, sentiment, theory, think, verdict, view), ‏شعور (affect, aura, cheer, consciousness, feel, hunch, pulse, sensation). (various references)

   

Basque

  

ukitu (touch), ukimen (touch). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съчувствен (commiserative, compassionate, responsive, soft, sympathetic, understanding), съчувствие (commiseration, compassion, condolence, fellow feeling, sympathy), страст (abandon, addiction, ardour, desire, fervency, fervor, fervour, infatuation, lust, passion, rage, vehemence), усещане (feel, perception, prehension, sensation, sense, sensibility), усет (eye, feel, flair, good sense, nose, prehension, sense, sensibility), разбиране (apprehension, comprehension, conception, grasp, grip, hold, idea, knowing, opinion, perception, realization, taste, understanding, uptake), чувство (affect, emotion, feel, sensation, sense, sentiment), чувствителен (apprehensive, fastidious, hair-trigger, high strung, impressionable, nice, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned), впечатление (effect, idea, impress, impression, ring), осезание (touch), отношение (attitude, bearing, concern, contact, count, deal, dealing, play, posture, proportion, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, respect, sentiment, stance, treatment), настроение (cheer, fit, frame of mind, humor, humour, mood, spirit, temper, tune), емоция (emotion), прочувствен (affective, effusive, heartfelt, home-felt, intense, pathetic). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

情緒 (sentiment), 情感 (emotion), (emotion, passion, situation), 感觉 (feelings, sensation, sense, sensed, Sensibilities, sensibility, sensing, sensorial), 感覺 (perception, sense, to become aware of, to feel), 感情 (affection, emotion, sensation). (various references)

   

Czech

  

upřímný (candid, direct, fair dealing, Frank, free-hearted, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, honest, ingenuous, on the up and up, open, open-hearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, transparent, true, true-hearted, unaffected, unreserved), sympatie (affinity, sympathy), srdeèný (affectionate, cordial, genial, heartfelt, hearty, home-felt, open armed, warm, warmhearted), soucitný (compassionate, passionate, pitiful, sympathetic, tenderhearted, warmhearted), pocit, názor (estimation, idea, notion, opinion, outlook, point of view, sentiments, theory, verdict, view, viewpoint), hmat (feel, grasp, touch), dojem (effect, image, impression, notion, vibes), citlivý (delicate, impressionable, open-hearted, responsive, sensitive, sore, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, vexed), cit (emotion, touch). (various references)

   

Danish

  

følelse (emotion, feel, sensation, sense). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gevoel (feel, sensation, sense, sentiment). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

sento (feel, sensation). (various references)

   

Estonian

  

meel. (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

kensla (feel, sensation, sense, sentiment). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tunto (conscience, consciousness, sensation, touch), tunne. (various references)

   

French

  

sentiment (feel). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

fielen (feel, sensation, sense), gefoel (feel, sensation, sense). (various references)

   

German

  

sinn (acceptation, feel, inclination, meaning, mind, point, sensation, sense, signification, spirit), gefühl (delicateness, emotion, feel, hunch, impression, sensation, sense, sentiment, soul, touch). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αίσθημα (sensation, sense, sentiment). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

הרגשה (feel, perception, sentiment). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

érzelem (emotion, sentiment), érzés (abashment, idea, sensation, sense, sentience, sentiment), tapintóérzék (sense of feeling, touch), tapintás (feel, fingering, handle, sense of feeling, touch), érzet (feel, sensation, sense), érzékelés (detection, feel, perception, sensation), érző (fey, sensitive, sentient). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

filing (intuition), perasaan (sense, sentiment), cita (sentiment). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tatto (discretion, feel, measure, tact, time, touch), sentimento (sentiment), sensibilità (direction, feel, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, speed), sensibile (amenable, sensible, sensitive, susceptible, tenderhearted, touchy), sensazione (sensation, sense, splash), impressione (hunch, impact, impress, impression, imprint, sensation). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

情緒 (emotion), 感触 (sensation, sense of touch). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かんじょう (aboard a warship, allowance, annulation, calculation, consideration, coronary, counting, defending soldier, emotion, letter of commendation, reckoning, ring-forming, sentiment, settlement of an account, tubular), じょうい (abdication, coat, emotion, emperor's wishes, expulsion of the foreigners, higher order, host computer, jacket, outer garment, superior, tunic, will, will or decree), じょうかん (article, clause, emotion, joining one's warship, provision, sensitivity, stipulation, superior officer, supernumerary official, volume one), じょうしょ (clean copy, emotion, memorial to the throne), ここち (mood, sensation), こころもち (mood, slightly, somewhat), こきみ (sentiment), じょうちょ (emotion), かんじ (arranging, Chinese characters, coordinator, executive secretary, government business, impression, kanji, manager, sense, stereotyped epithet, supervisor), フィーリング , かんしょく (a cold color, a compound color, do-nothing job, eating between meals, government service, leisurely post, sensation, sense of touch, sinecure, snacking, the rotting of lumber stored with poor air circulation), きみ (companion, daimyo, duke, egg yolk, lord, prince, public, sensation, subordinate, you), きもち (mood, sensation), ねん (attention, care, concern, desire, idea, sense, thought), しょかん (correspondence, epistle, impression, jurisdiction, letter, note), きぶん (mood, strange news), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, tin, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

감각 (feelings, sensation, sensorial, sensory). (various references)

   

Manx

  

ennaghtyn (atmosphere, experience, feel, gratitude, noble sentiments, perceive, realization, sensation, sense, sensibility, sympathy). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

følelse (emotion). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

tocar (touch). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

sentimentu (feel, sensation, sense), sentimento (feel, sensation, sense), heful (feel, sensation, sense). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eelingfay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

uczucie (feel, sensation, sense). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

sentimento (chord, consciousness, emotion, impression, meltingness, passion, regret, sensation, sentiment). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

sensibil (appreciably, considerable, considerably, delicate, impressible, impressionable, marked, noticeably, painful, palpable, passible, responsive, scrupulous, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, tangible, tender, thin-skinned, touchy), bunãtate (benignity, bounty, dainties, goodness, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, virtue), compãtimitor (compassionate, compassionately, humane, merciful, pitiful, pitifully, sympathetic, sympathetically, tender-hearted), duioşie (affection, fondness, gentleness, sadness), emoţie (agitation, emotion, excitement, flush, flutter, heart-beat, sensation, thrill, tremor, turn), impresie (effect, impress, impression, reaction, show), opinie (apprehension, judgement, judgment, mind, opinion, regard, sentiment, statement, thinking, view, voice), palpare (palpation, touch), afect (affect, affection, emotion), pipãit (feel, touch), tulburare (agitation, bewilderment, commotion, confusion, discomfort, disorder, disturbance, excitement, flap, flurry, fluster, interruption, invasion, perturbation, revolt, trouble, unrest, vexation), sentiment (conception, emotion, flush, pathos, sensation, sense, sentiment, view), senzaţie (boom, excitement, page-one, perception, sensation, splash, stir), senzitiv (sensitive, sensorial, sensory), simţãmânt (emotion, sentiment), simţire (consciousness, pathos, sentiment, soul), simţitor (passible, sensible, sentient, tender), suflet (backbone, bosom, breast, breath, conscience, ghost, head, heart, inner man, Jack, life, life blood, man, mind, mortal, party, peppiness, soul, spirit), susceptibilitate (huffiness, huffishness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, susceptibility, ticklishness), pipãire (feel, touch). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эмоция (emotion), симпатия (fellow feeling, leaning, liking, sympathy), чувствовать чувство (senses), чувство (sense, sentiment), ощущение (sensation, sense). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

nàire (bashfulness, ignominy; feeling of shame, shame). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pipanje (touch), osećaj (feel, sensation, sense, sentience). (various references)

   

Sotho

  

phela (doing, feel, feeling fine, fine). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sentimiento (affect, feel, regret, sensation, sense, sentiment, sympathy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

känsla (emotion, feel, flair, impression, sensation, sense, sentiment, touch), känsel (feel), känning (presentiment, touch). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อ่อนไหวง่าย, การสัมผัส (kiss), ความเข้าใจ, ความรู้สึก (feel), ความคิด (conceit, concept, conception, idea, soul, thought). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

duygulu (emotional, emotive, passibile, sensitive, sentient, sentimental, soulful, susceptible, thin-skinned), algı (apprehension, perception, sensation, sense), şefkât (affection, clemency, compassion, fondness, humaneness, kindliness, kindness, loving kindness, tenderness), bakış açısı (eye, line of sight, line of vision, outlook, standpoint, view point, viewpoint), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy), dokunma (contact, don't touch, handling, hands off, palpation, tact, tactile, tactual, touch, touching), dokunma hissi (feel), acıma (aching, commiseration, compassion, pathos, pity, Ruth, sympathy), duygu (chord, emotion, feel, sensation, sense, sentiment), sezi (intuition, sentience), duygusal (affective, emotional, emotive, sensational, sensual, sensuous, sentimental, soulful, susceptible, susceptive), görüş (apprehension, argument, aspect, case, concept, conviction, estimation, eye, genius, horizon, idea, interest, notion, opinion, optical, outlook, position, sentiments, sight, thought, view, vision, visual), hassas (brittle, climacteric, critical, delicate, emotional, exquisite, fair, fine, impressible, impressionable, nice, passibile, precision, queasy, quick, raw, responsive, rose water, sensible, sensitive, slippery, sore, spoony, squeamish, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned, ticklish, tickly, touchy), his (chord, consciousness, emotion, feel, sensation, sense, sentiment), hissetme (feel, perceiving, sensation, sense, understanding), izlenim (effect, impression, imprint, odor, odour, ring, stamp), sezgi (acumen, discernment, feel, flair, instinct, intuition, perception, sentience), duyarlı (capable, delicate, emotional, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, liable, reactive, responsive, sensible, sensitive, sentient, susceptible, susceptive, tender, thin-skinned). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

duяgy (sense). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

співчутливий (friendly, remorseful, sympathetic, warm-hearted), чутливість (hokum, impressionability, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, soreness, susceptibility, tenderness), чутливий (affectional, high strung, highly strung, hightoned, impressionable, nice, responsive, rocky, sensible, sensitive, sensory, sentient, susceptible, ticklish), чуйний (alive, charitable, kind hearted, ministering, nice, respondent, responsive, understanding), відчуття (feel, perception, sensation), зворушливий (affecting, appealing, interesting, moving, pathetic, pathetical, touching), емоція (emotion). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự sờ mó (touching), sự bắt mạch sự cảm thấy, chân thật; sâu sắc, cảm tưởng sự cảm động, cảm giác, cảm động nhạy cảm thật tình, có cảm giác có tình cảm xúc cảm. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ymdeimlad (sense), teimladwy (sensitive), teimlad (emotion, feel, sensation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Feeling

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

pathos. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

affectione, consenserat, consenserint, consenserunt, consensisse, consensit, consensu, consensurum, consensus, consenti, consentias, consentiat, consentiebam, consentiebas, consentiens, consentientes, consentio, consentit, consentitis, consentiunt, humanitas, humanitatem, humanitatis, pectora, pectorali, pectoralis, pectore, pectoris, pectus, sensibus, sensu, sensui, sensum, sensus, sententia, sententiae, sententiam, sententias, tactus. (various references)

Medieval Latin700-1500

sentimentum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Feeling

LanguageDateSourceRomans Chapter 1, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOu gar epaiscunomai to euaggelion tou cristou dunamiV gar qeou estin eiV swthrian panti tw pisteuonti ioudaiw te prwton kai ellhni
Latin405VulgateNon enim erubesco evangelium virtus enim Dei est in salutem omni credenti Iudaeo primum et Graeco
Old English990West SaxonIc neom ascomed þæs godspelles, forðy hit is Godes mægen for þære alysunge ealra þa þe geleafað: ærest for þone Ebrean, eft for þone hæðen.
Middle English1395WyclifFor Y schame not the gospel, for it is the vertu of God in to heelthe to ech man that bileueth, to the Jew first, and to the Greke.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleFor I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ because it is ye power of God vnto salvacio to all yt beleve namely to the Iewe and also to ye getyle.
Jacobean English1611King JamesFor I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Victorian English1833WebsterFor I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God to salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Basic English1964OgdenFor I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Feeling

LanguageRomans Chapter 1, Verse 16
Cebuano¶ Kay wala ko igakaulaw ang Maayong Balita, kay kini mao ang gahum sa Dios alang sa kaluwasan sa matag-usa nga nagatoo, sa Judio una sa tanan ug unya sa Gresyanhon usab.
CroatianNe stidim se, uistinu, evanðelja: ono je snaga Božja na spasenje svakomu tko vjeruje - Židovu najprije, pa Grku.
DanishThi jeg skammer mig ikke ved Evangeliet; thi det er en Guds Kraft til Frelse for hver den, som tror, både for Jøde først og for Græker.
DutchWant ik schaam mij des Evangelies van Christus niet; want het is een kracht Gods tot zaligheid een iegelijk, die gelooft, eerst den Jood, en ook den Griek.
FinnishSillä minä en häpeä evankeliumia; sillä se on Jumalan voima, itsekullekin uskovalle pelastukseksi, juutalaiselle ensin, sitten myös kreikkalaiselle.
FrenchCar je n`ai point honte de l`Évangile: c`est une puissance de Dieu pour le salut de quiconque croit, du Juif premièrement, puis du Grec,
GermanDenn ich schäme mich des Evangeliums von Christo nicht; denn es ist eine Kraft Gottes, die da selig macht alle, die daran glauben, die Juden vornehmlich und auch die Griechen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariSaya percaya sekali akan Kabar Baik itu, karena kabar itu adalah kekuatan Allah untuk menyelamatkan semua orang yang percaya; pertama-tama orang Yahudi, dan bangsa lain juga.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaKarena tiadalah aku berasa malu mengaku Injil itu; karena ia itulah suatu kuasa Allah yang mendatangkan selamat kepada tiap-tiap orang yang percaya, terutama sekali kepada orang Yahudi, dan kepada orang Gerika juga.
ItalianIo infatti non mi vergogno del vangelo, poiché è potenza di Dio per la salvezza di chiunque crede, del Giudeo prima e poi del Greco.
Maori¶ Kahore hoki oku whakama ki te rongopai: ko te kaha hoki ia o te Atua hei whakaora mo nga tangata katoa e whakapono ana; mo te Hurai ki mua, mo te Kariki ano hoki.
NorwegianFor jeg skammer mig ikke ved evangeliet; for det er en Guds kraft til frelse for hver den som tror, både for jøde først og så for greker;
PortuguesePorque não me envergonho do evangelho, pois é o poder de Deus para salvação de todo aquele que crê; primeiro do judeu, e também do grego.   
RumanianCqci mie nu mi -e ruwine de Evanghelia lui Hristos; fiindcq ea este puterea lui Dumnezeu pentru mkntuirea fiecqruia care crede: kntki a Iudeului, apoi a Grecului;
Shuar¶ Nu Shiir Chicham Yusa kakarmarijiai ti kakaram asa Ashí shuaran uwemtikramniaiti. Tuma asamtai natsantatsjai. Nekas Israer-shuarnasha tura Chíkich shuarnasha Núnisan uwemtikramniaiti.
SwahiliSioni aibu kutangaza Habari Njema; yenyewe ni nguvu ya Mungu inayowaokoa wote wanaoamini: Wayahudi kwanza, na wasio Wayahudi pia.
SwedishTy jag blyges icke för evangelium; ty det är en Guds kraft till frälsning för var och en som tror, först och främst för juden, så ock för greken.
Uma¶ Uma kupoka'ea' ngkeni Kareba Lompe'. Apa' Kareba Lompe' toe-mi baraka' Alata'ala to mpowai' kalompea' hi hawe'ea tauna to mepangala'. Lomo' -na Kareba Lompe' raparata-raka to Yahudi, aga hewa too-toi raparata wo'o-miraka tauna to bela-ra to Yahudi.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Feeling

Derivations

Words beginning with "feeling": feelingly, feelingness, feelingnesses, feelings. (additional references)

Words ending with "feeling": forefeeling, outfeeling, refeeling, unfeeling. (additional references)

Words containing "feeling": unfeelingly, unfeelingness, unfeelingnesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Feeling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eeeling, eeling, feawing, feelin, feening, Feering, feeting, Fehling, Feiling, felin, Felkin, felyng, Fenelon, Ferlini, Fidelina, fieking, Filein, fileing, fleeling, freeling, fyling. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Feeling"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "feeling" (pronounced fē"ling)
5f ē" l i ngunfeeling.
4-ē" l i ngannealing, appealing, ceiling, concealing, dealing, healing, Keeling, kneeling, peeling, reeling, repealing, revealing, sealing, Seeling, squealing, stealing, unappealing, wheeling.
3-l i ngappalling, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, killing, kindling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, seedling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Feeling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fleeing.

Words within the letters "e-e-f-g-i-l-n"

-1 letter: feeing, feline.

-2 letters: elfin, feign, fling, genie, ingle, liege.

-3 letters: feel, file, fine, flee, gene, gien, glee, glen, lief, lien, life, line, ling, neif.

-4 letters: eel, elf, eng, fee, fen, fie, fig, fil, fin, gee, gel, gen, gie, gin, lee, leg, lei, lie, lin, nee, nil.

-5 letters: ef, el, en, if, in, li, ne.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-g-i-l-n"
 

+1 letter: feelings, fleecing, fleering, fleeting.

 

+2 letters: befleaing, defleaing, feelingly, ferreling, fleeching, refeeling, refelling, reflexing, refueling, telfering, unfeeling.

 

+3 letters: beflecking, deflecting, enfeebling, ferrelling, fingerlike, fleeringly, fleetingly, freezingly, greenfield, greenflies, leafleting, outfeeling, reflecting, refuelling.

 

+4 letters: angelfishes, beflowering, deafeningly, deflowering, farewelling, feelingness, filagreeing, filigreeing, forefeeling, foretelling, freelancing, freeloading, leafletting, refiltering, reflowering, refrangible, unfeelingly, unfeignedly.

 

+5 letters: anglerfishes, efflorescing, electrifying, exemplifying, federalizing, fleetingness, freewheeling, genuflecting, genuflection, guilefulness, refreshingly, reliquefying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Sounds
10. Quotations: Familiar
11. Quotations: Historic
12. Quotations: Fiction
13. Quotations: Non-fiction
14. Quotations: Spoken
15. Quotations: Speeches
16. Usage Frequency
17. Names: Frequency
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern
21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Derivations
24. Rhymes
25. Anagrams
26. Bibliography


  

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