Definitions for the word "feeling" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. p. pr. & vb. n.
of Feel
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
1 a capacity to feel; sense of touch (lost all feeling). B physical sensation. 2 a (often foll. By of) emotional reaction (feeling of despair). B (in pl.) Emotional susceptibilities (hurt my feelings). 3 particular sensitivity (feeling for literature). 4 a opinion or notion (had a feeling she would). B general sentiment. 5 sympathy or compassion. 6 emotional sensibility or intensity (played with feeling). adj. Sensitive, sympathetic; heartfelt. feelingly adv.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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