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say it: FEE-ling
feeling is a noun meaning "the experiencing of affective and emotional states". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
“his impression of her was favorable”
“what are your feelings about the crisis?”
“it strengthened my belief in his sincerity”
“I had a feeling that she was lying”
a physical sensation that you experience
“he had a queasy feeling”
“I had a strange feeling in my leg”
“he lost all feeling in his arm”
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
“she likes the touch of silk on her skin”
“the surface had a greasy feeling”
an intuitive understanding of something
“he had a great feeling for music”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for feeling come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.