Feeling vs Perceiving - What's the difference?
feeling | perceiving |
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 act by which something is perceived.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
As nouns the difference between feeling and perceiving
is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while perceiving is the act by which something is perceived.As verbs the difference between feeling and perceiving
is that feeling is while perceiving is .As an adjective feeling
is emotionally sensitive.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.
Derived terms
* fellow feeling * hard feelings * hurt feelingsVerb
(head)Statistics
*Anagrams
* * ----perceiving
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires