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Feeling vs Floaty - What's the difference?

feeling | floaty |

As adjectives the difference between feeling and floaty

is that feeling is emotionally sensitive while floaty is (of a dress) lightweight, so as to rise when the wearer is walking.

As nouns the difference between feeling and floaty

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while floaty is a lilo or similar item that floats on water and can be sat on.

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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    floaty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a dress) lightweight, so as to rise when the wearer is walking.
  • (music) light, hypnotic and relaxing.
  • * 2005 , , Definitely knot one for the wimps [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article566957.ece]
    • All the floaty music in the world could not disguise my grunts as I clenched my teeth and curled my toes to fight the pain.
  • Having a feeling of extreme calm, as if floating through the air.

    • Synonyms

    * billowy

    Noun

    (floaties)
  • A lilo or similar item that floats on water and can be sat on.