Feeling

Feeling

Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences, other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth".

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    We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself, by which loud sounds are distinguished from faint ones, luminous colors from dark ones, highly chromatic colors from almost neutral tints, etc. The other is the intensity of consciousness that lays hold of the feeling, which makes the ticking of a watch actually heard infinitely more vivid than a cannon shot remembered to have been heard a few minutes ago.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    Pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces—
    We cringe in holes, back on forgotten dreams, and stare, snow-dazed,
    Deep into grassier ditches.
    Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

    Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
    Jean Rostand (1894–1977)