feelings

1. 1.

   emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity)

   “the remark hurt his feelings”

   Broadersensitivity

Other forms of feelings

plural

feelingses·

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.

Questions about feelings

What does feelings mean?

feelings means "emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity)".

How many syllables are in feelings?

feelings has 2 syllables: fee-lings. The stress falls on "fee". In IPA it is /ˈfilɪŋz/.

Is feelings a common word?

feelings is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.