# feeling
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfiːlɪŋ/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈfilɪŋ/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
* Hyphenation: feel‧ing

### Adjective

feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)
* Emotionally sensitive.
    Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
* Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
    He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

#### Translations
### Noun

feeling (plural feelings)
* Sensation, particularly through the skin.
    The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
* 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.
* (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
    You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
* (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!”‎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
* 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
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* bad feeling
* feelingful
* feeling in one's waters
* feelingless
* feelingly
* feelingness
* feelpinion
* fellow-feeling, fellow feeling
* floating feeling
* gut feeling
* hard feelings
* hurt feelings
* ill feeling
* misfeeling
* mixed feelings
* nonfeeling
* no sense no feeling
* race feeling
* self-feeling
* sinking feeling
* that tired feeling
* underfeeling
* unfeeling
* where there's no sense there's no feeling

#### Descendants

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

#### Translations

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### Verb

feeling
* present participle and gerund of feel

#### Derived terms

* feeling no pain

### Anagrams

* fine leg, fleeing, flingee

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fi.liŋ/

### Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)
* instinct, hunch

### Anagrams

* églefin

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfi.linɡ/, /ˈfi.lin/
* Rhymes: -ilinɡ, -ilin

### Noun

feeling m (invariable)
* an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling

### References

* ↑ feeling in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

### Noun

feeling n (plural feelinguri)
* feeling

#### Declension
### References

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* filing

### Noun

feeling m
* feeling, hunch
    Synonym: osjećaj

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English feeling.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfilin/ [ˈfi.lĩn]
* Rhymes: -ilin

### Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)
* feeling, hunch
* spark; attraction; feeling

#### Usage notes

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.