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Feeling vs Essence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between feeling and essence

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while essence is (inherent nature)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.

As an adjective feeling

is emotionally sensitive.

As a verb feeling

is present participle of lang=en.

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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    essence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
  • * Landor
    • The laws are at present, both in form and essence , the greatest curse that society labours under.
  • * Addison
    • Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
  • * Courthorpe
    • The essence of Addison's humour is irony.
  • (philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
  • Constituent substance.
  • * Milton
    • Uncompounded is their essence pure.
  • A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
  • * Milton
    • As far as gods and heavenly essences / Can perish.
  • * Washington Irving
    • He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences , until he had an ideal world of his own around him.
  • A significant feature of something.
  • The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
  • * essence of Jojoba
  • Fragrance, a perfume.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Nor let the essences exhale.

    Derived terms

    * in essence * of the essence; time is of the essence

    Related terms

    * essential * essentialism * quintessential

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