feeling: Meaning and Definition of

feel•ing

1. the function or the power of perceiving by touch.
2. physical sensation not connected with sight, hearing, taste, or smell.
3. a particular sensation of this kind: a feeling of warmth; a feeling of pain.
4. the general state of consciousness considered independently of particular sensations, thoughts, etc.
5. a consciousness or vague awareness: a feeling of inferiority.
6. an emotion or emotional perception or attitude: a feeling of joy; a feeling of sorrow.
7. capacity for emotion, esp. compassion: to have great feeling for the sufferings of others.
8. a sentiment; attitude; opinion: The general feeling was in favor of the proposal.
9. sensibilities; susceptibilities: to hurt one's feelings.
10. fine emotional endowment.
11. (in music, art, etc.) a poem without feeling.
1. emotion or sympathetic perception revealed by an artist in his or her work:a poem without feeling.
2. the general impression conveyed by a work:a landscape painting with a spacious feeling.
3. sympathetic appreciation, as of music:to play with feeling.

1. sensitive; sentient.
2. readily affected by emotion; sympathetic: a feeling heart.
3. indicating or characterized by emotion: a feeling reply to the charge.