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Feeling vs Intimation - What's the difference?

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Feeling is a related term of intimation.


As nouns the difference between feeling and intimation

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.

As an adjective feeling

is emotionally sensitive.

As a verb feeling

is .

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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    intimation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
  • Announcement; declaration.
  • * (Holland)
    • They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
  • A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
  • *
    • Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
  • * 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :
    • At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.

    Related terms

    * intimacy * intimate