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Feeling vs Doing - What's the difference?

feeling | doing |

As nouns the difference between feeling and doing

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while doing is a deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.

As verbs the difference between feeling and doing

is that feeling is present participle of lang=en while doing is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective feeling

is emotionally sensitive.

As an interjection doing is

the sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.

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)

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    doing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (pedantic)

    Etymology 1

    See (do).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
    • This is his doing . (= "He did it.")

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopœic.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
    • Synonyms
    * boing

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * * * English onomatopoeias