Feeling vs Earnestness - What's the difference?
feeling | earnestness | Synonyms |
Emotionally sensitive.
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
Sensation, particularly through the skin.
Emotion; impression.
Emotional state or well-being.
Emotional attraction or desire.
Intuition.
* 1987 ,
An opinion, an attitude.
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The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
*:She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.
Feeling is a synonym of earnestness.
As nouns the difference between feeling and earnestness
is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.As an adjective feeling
is emotionally sensitive.As a verb feeling
is .feeling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling .
- He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Noun
(en noun)- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling .
- The house gave me a feeling of dread.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
- Many people still have feelings for their first love.
- He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
- 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.