Looking vs Feeling - What's the difference?
looking | feeling |
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
* 1988 September 12, New York Magazine , page 226
(obsolete) The act of one who looks; a glance.
(obsolete) The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance.
* Chaucer
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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As verbs the difference between looking and feeling
is that looking is while feeling is .As nouns the difference between looking and feeling
is that looking is (obsolete) the act of one who looks; a glance while feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin.As an adjective feeling is
emotionally sensitive.looking
English
Verb
(head)George Goodchild
- Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.
Derived terms
* good-looking * looking glassNoun
(en noun)- All dreary was his cheer and his looking .
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*feeling
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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.