英语词汇“feeling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	feeling
释义	feeling I. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English felinge, feling, from felen to feel + -inge, -ing -ing — more at feel I 1. a. : the one of the five senses of which the skin is the chief end organ and of which the sensations of touch, contact, temperature, and pressure are characteristic b. : a sensation experienced through this sense; especially : a sensation of touch 2. : a sensation, a complex of sensations, or a perception belonging to the more general forms of sensibility: a. : bodily consciousness : organic sensation b. : a generalized sensation involving touch, contact, temperature, pressure, or physical pain or pleasure c. : appreciative or responsive awareness or recognition < experience a feeling of safety > < a feeling of injury followed the unfair decision of the court > d. : sympathetic aesthetic response 3. a. : the undifferentiated background of one's awareness considered apart from any identifiable sensation, perception, or thought b. : the overall quality of one's awareness especially as measured along a pleasantness-unpleasantness continuum — compare affect I 2, emotion 4. a. : the condition of one that feels : an emotional state : emotion < a kindly feeling inside him whenever he was treated decently > < experienced a feeling of pride at the accomplishment > < a feeling of reverential awe for these immemorial shelters — Norman Douglas > also : a particular emotion < human feelings — human hopes, aspirations, fears, and sorrows — H.R.Collins > b. feelings plural : sensibilities < a biting remark that hurt the feelings of a good friend > c. : emotional reaction < so unable to control her feelings that she broke down and wept > specifically : the emotional reaction of one person or group to another or the emotional relationship of one person or group to another or of two persons or groups < wished to improve the feeling between the two countries > < bad feeling existed wherever he went and he expected an outburst of hostilities at any moment > < the act promoted the best feeling possible between the families > d. : a reaction consisting of or combining hostility, distrust, dislike, opposition, resentment, or hatred and usually marked by belligerence < there was feeling between the groups so we hesitated to intervene > < feeling ran high at the proposal > e. : tender emotion : fondness, affection, love < don't have any feeling anymore about you — Louis Auchincloss > 5. a. : opinion, belief < asked the professor what his feelings were on the international crisis > b. : unreasoned opinion : frame of mind : emotional attitude : sentiment < expressing the feelings of an essentially irrational child > < impossible to imagine the feeling about so controversial a person > 6. : capacity to feel emotion : emotional responsiveness < found out how much feeling his mother really had > especially : delicate and sympathetic emotional responsiveness < a man of fine feeling > 7. a. : a character or quality ascribed to or associated with something as a result of one's impression or emotional state : feel, atmosphere < the place had the feeling of a haunted house > especially : the emotional quality (as of a work of art or literature) that calls to mind a particular era, period, place, culture, or civilization < a collection of scenic wallpapers that … have a slight Japanese feeling — New Yorker > < a Baroque feeling in the architecture > < the feeling of the outdoors has been realized with sky-blue ceiling and natural colors — Playthings > b. : the impression something gives to one observing or experiencing < thoroughfares and railways alive with busy traffic … give the feeling of energy and power — Samuel Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington > c. or feeling tone : the quality of a work of art which embodies, conveys, or is calculated to convey emotion 8. : the ability to deal with or handle something with sensitivity and facility — used with for < he has no true feeling for words — Geographical Journal > < a young painter with a good feeling for color > 9. : presentiment < recent attempts to combine quantum mechanics and electrodynamics have produced … relatively little feeling of a final result — W.V.Houston > < these may all be short and scattered straws on which to base my feeling of a trend — W.I.Nichols > Synonyms: affection, emotion, sentiment, passion: feeling, the most general of the terms in this connection, denotes any partly mental, partly physical (but not entirely sensory) response, or the resulting state, marked by pleasure, pain, attraction, or repulsion < hostile feelings toward strangers > < the sentimental song aroused no feeling in him at all > < expressions of patriotic feeling — D.W.Brogan > < she had a feeling that all would be well — Gilbert Parker > affection is usually applied to feelings marked by inclination toward, liking, or fondness < his personality aroused the lasting affection of the generations of students he instructed — W.S.Rusk > < the authors' affection for the buildings they have seen in China — Jane G. Mahler > < without fear or favor, affection or ill-will — F.T.Giles > emotion usually suggests a condition that involves more of the total mental and physical response than does feeling, or implies feelings marked by a certain excitement or agitation < rousing the patriotic emotions of the citizenry — Oscar Handlin > < every other emotion — affection, tenderness, sympathy, sentiment — Ellen Glasgow > < the emotions which we ordinarily distinguish — ambition, lust, pity, pride, anger, and many others — Stuart Hampshire > sentiment suggests a larger intellectual element than do the other terms, applying commonly to an emotion inspired by an idea, often suggesting a refined or an affected feeling < one of the centers of anti-slavery sentiment — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < a considerable sentiment in favor of the proposition — J.H.Easterby > < man of liberal sentiments and cultivated understandings — T.B.Macaulay > passion suggests a strong, especially a controlling, emotion, implying urgency of desire (as for possession or revenge) < the love of dancing amounts almost to a passion — American Guide Series: Louisiana > < this consuming passion for law — H.E.Scudder > Synonym: see in addition sensation. II. adjective Etymology: Middle English feling, from felen to feel + -inge, -ing -ing (alteration of -inde, -ende) 1. a. : sentient, sensitive < not a mere lump of clay but a feeling creature > : having the capacity to feel or respond emotionally b. : easily affected or moved emotionally < a feeling heart > 2. : expressing or evincing great sensitivity or emotional susceptibility < wrote in passonate feeling language > 3. obsolete : deeply or keenly felt < a feeling grief > • feel·ing·ness noun -es
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