Feeling — Defs

01 a. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

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Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
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Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

02 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…

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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.
“Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused?” — Milton.
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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.
“The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.” — Shak.
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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.
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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.
“A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.” — Garrick.

“Tenderness for the feelings of others.” — Macaulay.
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That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.