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From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel +‎ -ing.

• (UK, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈfiː.lɪŋ/

• Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfi.lɪŋ/

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• Hyphenation: feel‧ing
• Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ

feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)

1. Emotionally sensitive.

   Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.

2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

   He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

feeling (plural feelings)

1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.

   The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.

2. Emotion; impression.

   The house gave me a feeling of dread.

   • 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: London Bridge”, in RAIL, number 948, page 31:

     Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.

3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

   You really hurt my feelings when you said that.

4. (usually in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.

   Many people still have feelings for their first love.

   • 2024 April 5, Chappell Roan, Justin Tranter, Dan Nigro, “Good Luck, Babe!”‎^[1]performed by Chappell Roan:

     You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
     Shoot another shot, try to stop the feeling
     You can say it's just the way you are
     Make a new excuse, another stupid reason

5. Intuition.

   He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.

   I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.

   • 1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:

     Got on a lucky one / Came in eighteen to one / I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you

6. An opinion, an attitude.
   • 1972, George J. W. Goodman (Adam Smith), Supermoney, page 156:

     When you are tempted to speculate in cocoa, lie down until the feeling goes away.

• → French: feeling
• → German: Feeling
• → Japanese: フィーリング
• → Italian: feeling
• → Spanish: feeling

feeling

1. present participle and gerund of feel

• feeling no pain

• fine leg, fleeing, flingee

Borrowed from English feeling.

• IPA^(key): /fi.liŋ/

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. instinct, hunch
   • 1981, Michel Berger, “Tout pour la musique”, performed by France Gall:

     Et le feeling prime la raison / Ils s'abandonnent à l'unisson

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. sympathy, emotional connection (feeling of understanding between people)
   • 2016, Gabriel Dumoulin, Six mois d'abonnement, Atrabile, →ISBN:

     Attends, on a trop bien tchatté ce soir… plus de deux heures au moins. On a un super feeling… Tu trouves pas ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• églefin

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfi.linɡ/, /ˈfi.lin/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ilinɡ, -ilin

feeling m (invariable)

1. an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

feeling n (plural feelinguri)

1. feeling

• feeling in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• filing

feeling m inan (Cyrillic spelling феелинг)

1. feeling, hunch

   Synonym: osjećaj

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfilin/ [ˈfi.lĩn]
• Rhymes: -ilin

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. feeling, hunch
2. spark; attraction; feeling

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.