📒 something that you feel through the mind or through the senses
- a feeling of something a feeling of guilt/helplessness/anger/sadness
- He struggled with feelings of isolation and loneliness.
- You might experience feelings of dizziness and nausea.
📒 a person’s emotions rather than their thoughts or ideas
- He hates talking about his feelings.
- to express/share your feelings
- People's words often hide their true feelings.
📒 strong emotion
- Feeling runs deep (= people feel strongly) on this issue.
- feeling about something the depth/strength of feeling about an issue
- with feeling She spoke with feeling about the plight of homeless people.
📒 an attitude or opinion about something
- The general feeling was against the decision.
- My own feeling is that we should buy the cheaper one.
- Public feeling is being ignored by the government.
📒 the idea or belief that a particular thing is true or a particular situation is likely to happen
- Our gut feeling tells us that this will work.
- feeling (that)… I got the feeling he didn't like me much.
- I had this nagging feeling that I had forgotten something.
📒 sympathy or love for somebody/something
- He never told her his feelings.
- feeling for somebody/something You have no feeling for the sufferings of others.
- I still have feelings for her (= feel attracted to her in a romantic way).
📒 the ability to feel physically
- I've lost all feeling in my legs.
- Feeling gradually began to return to my frozen feet.
- Will she ever get the feeling back in her fingers?
📒 the ability to understand somebody/something or to do something in a sensitive way
- He played the piano with great feeling.
- feeling for somebody/something She has a wonderful feeling for colour.
- He had developed a feeling for when not to disturb her.
📒 the atmosphere of a place, situation, etc.
- They have managed to recreate the feeling of the original theatre.
- The house had a feeling of neglect about it.
- There's a great patriotic feeling in the country.
📒 anger between people, especially after an argument
- There was a lot of bad feeling between the two groups of students.
- I don't want any bad feelings between us.
📒 used after you have been arguing with somebody or have beaten them in a contest but you would still like to be friendly with them
- It looks like I'm the winner again. No hard feelings, Dave, eh?
- Someone has to lose. No hard feelings, eh?
📒 an unpleasant feeling that you get when you realize that something bad has happened or is going to happen
- I had a horrible sinking feeling when I saw the ambulance outside the house.
📒 to be careful not to do or say anything that might upset somebody
- I kept off the subject of divorce so as to spare her feelings.