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Feel vs Enjoy - What's the difference?

feel | enjoy |

As verbs the difference between feel and enjoy

is that feel is (lb) to use the sense of touch while enjoy is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.

As a noun feel

is a quality of an object experienced by touch.

As a pronoun feel

is .

As an adjective feel

is .

As an adverb feel

is .

feel

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) felen, from (etyl) .

Verb

  • (lb) To use the sense of touch.
  • # To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on.
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  • #(lb) To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements.
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  • #(lb) To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
  • #(lb) To search by sense of touch.
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  • (lb) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
  • #(lb) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.
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  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:Teach me to feel another's woe.
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  • #*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile?; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
  • #(lb) To think, believe, or have an impression concerning.
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  • #*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • #*:Garlandswhich I feel / I am not worthy yet to wear.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=19 citation , passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
  • # To experience an emotion or other mental state.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • #(lb) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
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  • #*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
  • #*:[She] feels with the dignity of a Roman matron.
  • #*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • #*:who feel for all mankind
  • (lb) To be or become aware of.
  • (lb) To experience the consequences of.
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  • (lb) To seem (through touch or otherwise).
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  • To understand.
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  • Usage notes
    * Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used in US English. * (term) is sometimes used after (feel) in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, (bad). * Some users use (badly) when referring to an emotional state, and (bad) when referring to a more physical or medical state. * Adjectives to which "feel" is often applied as a copula: free, cold, cool, warm, hot, young, old, good, great, fine, happy, glad, satisfied, excited, bad, depressed, unhappy, sad, blue, sorry, smart, stupid, loved, appreciated, accepted, rejected, lonely, isolated, insulted, offended, slighted, cheated, shy, refreshed, tired, exhausted, calm, relaxed, angry, annoyed, frustrated, anxious, worried, jealous, proud, confident, safe, grateful, uncomfortable, unsafe, insecure, desperate, guilty, ashamed, disappointed, dirty, odd, strange, ill, sick.
    Derived terms
    * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quality of an object experienced by touch.
  • Bark has a rough feel .
  • A vague mental impression.
  • You should get a feel of the area before moving in.
  • An act of fondling.
  • She gave me a quick feel to show that she loves me.
  • A vague understanding
  • I'm getting a feel for what you mean.
  • An intuitive ability
  • She has a feel for music.
  • Alternative form of feeling
  • I know that feel.
    Derived terms
    * cop a feel * get a feel for * mouthfeel

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) feele, fele, feole, from (etyl) fela, feala, . Related to (l).

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • enjoy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • To have the use or benefit of something.
  • * Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
  • that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
  • * 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
  • This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
  • To have sexual intercourse with.
  • (Milton)

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Derived terms

    * enjoyable * enjoyment * to enjoy oneself