单词 | feeling |
释义 | feeling —feelingly, adv. —feelingness, n. /fee"ling/, n. 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. feelings, sensibilities; susceptibilities: to hurt one's feelings. 10. fine emotional endowment. 11. (in music, art, etc.) a. emotion or sympathetic perception revealed by an artist in his or her work: a poem without feeling. b. the general impression conveyed by a work: a landscape painting with a spacious feeling. c. sympathetic appreciation, as of music: to play with feeling. adj. 12. sensitive; sentient. 13. readily affected by emotion; sympathetic: a feeling heart. 14. indicating or characterized by emotion: a feeling reply to the charge. [1125-75; ME; see FEEL, -ING1, -ING2] Syn. 5. FEELING, EMOTION, PASSION, SENTIMENT refer to pleasurable or painful sensations experienced when one is stirred to sympathy, anger, fear, love, grief, etc. FEELING is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. EMOTION is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. PASSION is strong or violent emotion, often so overpowering that it masters the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. SENTIMENT is a mixture of thought and feeling, esp. refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment. 6. sympathy, empathy, tenderness, sensitivity, sentiment. 12. emotional, tender. 13. impassioned, passionate. Ant. 5, 6. apathy. 12. cold. |
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