English > feeling: 6 senses > noun 1, Tops| Meaning | The experiencing of affective and emotional states. |
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| Examples | - "she had a feeling of euphoria"
- "he had terrible feelings of guilt"
- "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
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| Narrower | affect | The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion |
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| affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia | A positive feeling of liking |
| agitation | The feeling of being agitated |
| ambivalence, ambivalency | mixed feelings or emotions |
| apathy | An absence of emotion or enthusiasm |
| astonishment, amazement | The feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising |
| calmness | A feeling of calm |
| complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior |
| desire | The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state |
| despair | The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well |
| devastation | The feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed |
| dislike | A feeling of aversion or antipathy |
| emotion | Any strong feeling |
| enthusiasm | A feeling of excitement |
| expectation | The feeling that something is about to happen / happen / happen |
| faintness | A feeling of faintness and of being ready to swoon |
| fearlessness, bravery | Feeling no fear |
| glow | A feeling of considerable warmth |
| gratitude | A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation |
| gravity, solemnity | A solemn and dignified feeling |
| happiness | emotions experienced when in a state of well-being |
| hope | The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled |
| humility, humbleness | A humble feeling |
| ingratitude, ungratefulness | A lack of gratitude |
| levity | Feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness |
| liking | A feeling of pleasure and enjoyment |
| pain, painfulness | emotional distress |
| pang, stab, twinge | A sudden sharp feeling |
| passion, passionateness | A strong feeling or emotion |
| pleasure, pleasance | A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience |
| pride, pridefulness | A feeling of self-respect and personal worth |
| sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being |
| sensitivity, sensitiveness | sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) |
| sentiment | tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion |
| sex, sexual urge | All of the feelings resulting from the urge to gratify sexual impulses |
| shame | A painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt |
| soul, soulfulness | Deep feeling or emotion |
| sympathy, fellow feeling | Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
| temper, mood, humor, humour | A characteristic / characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling |
| thing | A persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion |
| unconcern | A feeling of lack of concern |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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| Spanish | sensación, sentimiento |
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| Catalan | sentiment |
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| Verbs | feel | undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind |
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English > feeling: 6 senses > noun 2, cognition| Meaning | A vague idea in which some confidence is placed. |
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| Examples | - "what are your feelings about the crisis?"
- "I had a feeling that she was lying"
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| Synonyms | impression, belief, notion, opinion |
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| Narrower | effect | An impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived) |
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| first blush | At the first glimpse or impression |
| intuition, hunch, suspicion | An impression that something might be the case |
| presence | The impression that something is present |
| Broader | idea, thought | The content of cognition |
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| Spanish | creencia, impresión, sentimiento |
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| Catalan | creença, impressió, sentiment |
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| Verbs | feel | come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds |
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