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Feeling vs Being - What's the difference?

feeling | being |

As nouns the difference between feeling and being

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while being is a living creature.

As verbs the difference between feeling and being

is that feeling is while being is .

As an adjective feeling

is emotionally sensitive.

As a conjunction being is

(obsolete) given that; since.

feeling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Emotionally sensitive.
    • Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling .
  • Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
    • He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sensation, particularly through the skin.
    • The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling .
  • Emotion; impression.
    • The house gave me a feeling of dread.
  • Emotional state or well-being.
    • You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
  • Emotional attraction or desire.
    • Many people still have feelings for their first love.
  • Intuition.
    • He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
  • * 1987 ,
    • Got on a lucky one
    Came in eighteen to one
    I've got a feeling
    This year's for me and you
    I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.
  • An opinion, an attitude.
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    • Derived terms

    * fellow feeling * hard feelings * hurt feelings

    Verb

    (head)

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    being

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A living creature.
  • The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Claudius, thou / Wast follower of his fortunes in his being .
  • (philosophy) That which has actuality (materially or in concept).
  • (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.
  • (obsolete) An abode; a cottage.
    • (Wright)
  • * Steele
    • It was a relief to dismiss them [Sir Roger's servants] into little beings within my manor.

    Derived terms

    * beingdom * beingful * beinghood * beingless * beingness * (noun ) human being

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (obsolete) Given that; since.
  • *, New York Review Books 2001, p.280:
    • ’Tis a hard matter therefore to confine them, being they are so various and many […].

    Derived terms

    * being that

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    See also

    * am * are * is * art * be * been * beest * was * wast * were * wert

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