The term itself derives from the Latin emovere which translates as to move, to excite, to stir up or to agitate . An umbrella term for any of a number of subjectively experienced, affect-laden states the ontological status of each being established at by simple consensus. It is what we mean when we say that love, fear, hate, terror , etc. are emotions. A label for a field of scientific investigation that explores the various environmental, physiological and cognitive factors that underlie these subjective experiences. Human beings think emotionally.
Feeling is the predominant state of mind.
We do not experience the world and other human beings in terms of abstract ideas but through the faculty of feeling. Feeling is the capacity of our mind that is most closely related to the body. Feeling without its relationship to the body is inconceivable. Emotions and feelings are strong forces and drives that determine the individualized form in nature, thereby running the whole gamut from primitive organisms to the most complex ones, the homo sapiens. Emotions are linked to experience, and experience is linked to the body.