feeling

From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel +‎ -ing.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfiːlɪŋ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfilɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
• Hyphenation: feel‧ing

feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)

1. Emotionally sensitive.

   Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.

2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

   He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

feeling (plural feelings)

1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.

   The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.

2. Emotion; impression.

   The house gave me a feeling of dread.

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.

3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

   You really hurt my feelings when you said that.

4. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.

   Many people still have feelings for their first love.

5. Intuition.

   He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.

   I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.

   • 1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:

     Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you

6. An opinion, an attitude.
   • 1972, George J. W. Goodman (Adam Smith), Supermoney, page 156:

     When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.

• → French: feeling
• → German: Feeling
• → Japanese: フィーリング
• → Italian: feeling
• → Spanish: feeling

feeling

1. present participle and gerund of feel

• feeling no pain

• fine leg, fleeing, flingee

Borrowed from English feeling.

• IPA^(key): /fi.liŋ/

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. instinct, hunch

• églefin

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.linɡ/, /ˈfi.lin/[1]
• Rhymes: -ilinɡ, -ilin

feeling m (invariable)

1. an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

feeling n (plural feelinguri)

1. feeling

• feeling in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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feeling m

1. feeling, hunch

   Synonym: osjećaj

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilin/ [ˈfi.lĩn]
• Rhymes: -ilin

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. feeling, hunch
2. spark; attraction; feeling

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.