- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Feel.
- (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.
- (a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
- (n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.
- (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.
- (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.
- (a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
- (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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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