Definition of feeling

• p. pr. & vb. n. - of Feel
• a. - Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
• a. - Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
• n. - The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
• n. - An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
• n. - The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
• n. - Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
• n. - That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.