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Feeling vs Sensation - What's the difference?

feeling | sensation |

As nouns the difference between feeling and sensation

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while sensation is a physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.

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)

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    sensation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A physical feeling or perception from something that comes into contact with the body; something sensed.
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  • *:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.}}
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  • A widespread reaction of interest or excitement.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations , surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}
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    • Hyponyms

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    Related terms

    * sensational * sense * sensible * sensitive * sensory * sensual

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