Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definition: Feeling |
FeelingNoun1. 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) |
(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."
Synonyms: FeelingSynonyms: 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) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
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. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. | |||
![]() | ![]() |
| "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. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| 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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
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. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
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. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(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. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | The 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 | 1909-1913 | I look forward with hope to increasing the already good feeling between the South and the other sections of the country. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | On 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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 57.81% | 5,958 | 1,638 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 42.19% | 4,348 | 2,259 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,306 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Feeling | Last name | 100 | 85,238 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| 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), 情 (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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pathos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 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 Latin | 700-1500 | sentimentum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 1, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ou gar epaiscunomai to euaggelion tou cristou dunamiV gar qeou estin eiV swthrian panti tw pisteuonti ioudaiw te prwton kai ellhni |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non enim erubesco evangelium virtus enim Dei est in salutem omni credenti Iudaeo primum et Graeco |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ic 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 English | 1395 | Wyclif | For 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 English | 1526 | Tyndale | For 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 English | 1611 | King James | For 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 English | 1833 | Webster | For 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 English | 1964 | Ogden | For 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. | |||
| Language | Romans 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. |
| Croatian | Ne stidim se, uistinu, evanðelja: ono je snaga Božja na spasenje svakomu tko vjeruje - Židovu najprije, pa Grku. |
| Danish | Thi 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. |
| Dutch | Want 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. |
| Finnish | Sillä minä en häpeä evankeliumia; sillä se on Jumalan voima, itsekullekin uskovalle pelastukseksi, juutalaiselle ensin, sitten myös kreikkalaiselle. |
| French | Car 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, |
| German | Denn 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-hari | Saya 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 Lama | Karena 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. |
| Italian | Io 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. |
| Norwegian | For 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; |
| Portuguese | Porque 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. |
| Rumanian | Cqci 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. |
| Swahili | Sioni aibu kutangaza Habari Njema; yenyewe ni nguvu ya Mungu inayowaokoa wote wanaoamini: Wayahudi kwanza, na wasio Wayahudi pia. |
| Swedish | Ty 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. | |
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) | |
| |
"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "feeling" (pronounced fē"ling) |
| 5 | f ē" l i ng | unfeeling. |
| 4 | -ē" l i ng | annealing, appealing, ceiling, concealing, dealing, healing, Keeling, kneeling, peeling, reeling, repealing, revealing, sealing, Seeling, squealing, stealing, unappealing, wheeling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | appalling, 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 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 |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.