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feelings - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
| Synonyms: | activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitement, feel, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, reflex, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, titillation, excitability, excitation, innervation, motility, motor response, receptivity, responsiveness, sensuality, tactility, tangibility |
| Antonyms: | insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea, impression |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, belief, consciousness, conviction, eye*, hunch*, inclination, inkling, instinct, mind, notion, opinion, outlook, persuasion, point of view, presentiment, reaction, sense, sentiment, suspicion, thought, view |
| Antonyms: | concrete, solid, thing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, spirit, sympathy, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth, palpability, sharpness, tangibility |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ambience |
| Synonyms: | air, atmosphere, aura, impression, imprint, mood, quality, semblance |
| Main Entry: | frame of mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's mental attitude |
| Synonyms: | attitude, constitution, disposition, humor, makeup, mentality, mood, nature, shape, spirit, spirits, standing, state, temper, temperament, tone, vein, emotions, feelings, inner nature, mindset, state of mind, temporary psychological state |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shared feeling |
| Synonyms: | accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, commiseration, compassion, concord, connection, correspondence, empathy, fellow feeling, harmony, heart, kindness, rapport, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, union, unity, warmth, benignancy, close relation, congeniality, feelings, kindliness, mutual attraction, mutual fondness, responsiveness, warmheartedness |
| Notes: | condolence and sympathy are parallel formations going back to Latin condolere and Greek sumpatheia, meaning 'together-suffering' empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person |
| Antonyms: | disdain, incompatibility, indifference |
| Main Entry: | warmth |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | fervor |
| Synonyms: | ardor, enthusiasm, excitement, passion, zeal, emotions, feelings |
| Main Entry: | bosom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heart; core |
| Synonyms: | center, circle, conscience, inside, interior, soul, spirit, affections, emotions, feelings, sentiments, sympathies |
| Antonyms: | outside, exteriority |
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch*, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love*, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot*, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen*, amore |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distinctive quality or character; style |
| Synonyms: | address, affectation, ambience, appearance, atmosphere, aura, bearing, demeanor, deportment, effect, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, look, manner, mannerism, mien, mood, pose, presence, property, quality, semblance, tone, comportment |
| Main Entry: | ardor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fire, gusto, heat, intensity, jazz*, keenness, oomph*, passion, pep talk*, spirit, turn on*, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness*, zeal, zest, zing, fierceness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, frigidity, indifference, coldness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | atmosphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general feeling or mood |
| Synonyms: | air, ambience, aura, background, character, climate, color, environment, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, local color, medium, mood, place, property, quality, scene, semblance, sense, space, spirit, surroundings, taste, tone |
| Main Entry: | aura |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | air, character |
| Synonyms: | ambience, appearance, aspect, atmosphere, background, emanation, feel, feeling, mood, quality, scent, semblance, suggestion, tone |
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, presumption, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view, mindset, postulation, presupposition |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | benevolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charity |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy, comity |
| Antonyms: | animosity, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, greediness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | clairvoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intuition |
| Synonyms: | ESP*, acumen, discernment, feeling, foreknowledge, insight, omen, penetration, perception, precognition, premonition, psyche, sixth sense*, telepathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | climate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mood of situation |
| Synonyms: | ambience, atmosphere, disposition, environment, feeling, medium, milieu, mood, surroundings, temper, tendency, trend, ambient, mise-en-scène |
| Main Entry: | conviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, opinion |
| Synonyms: | confidence, creed, doctrine, dogma, eye, faith, feeling, mind, persuasion, principle, reliance, sentiment, slant, tenet, view, judgment call, say so |
| Main Entry: | discovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finding, uncovering |
| Synonyms: | analysis, calculation, detection, determination, diagnosis, discernment, disclosure, distinguishing, empiricism, encounter, exploration, exposition, exposure, feeling, hearing, identification, introduction, invention, learning, locating, location, origination, perception, revelation, strike, verification, ascertainment, authentication, certification, espial, experimentation, sensing, sighting, unearthing |
| Antonyms: | loss, miss |
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
| Synonyms: | affect, affection, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, warmth, zeal, affectivity, excitability, responsiveness, sensitiveness, vibes |
| Antonyms: | physicality |
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