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Feeling vs Response - What's the difference?

feeling | response | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between feeling and response

is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while response is (an answer or reply)An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.

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)
  • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    response

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
  • (senseid)The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
  • An oracular answer.
  • (liturgics ) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
  • (liturgics ) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
  • A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
  • An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
  • A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
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  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Stents to Prevent Stroke , passage=As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response , which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.}}

    Quotations

    * 1338 , , Middle English Chronicle *: What was his respons written, I ne sauh no herd. * 1842 , , The Two Voices *: Then did my response clearer fall:
    "No compound of this earthly ball
    Is like another, all in all." * 1874 , , Sensation and Intuition , p. 17. *: There seems a vast psychological interval between an emotional response to the action of some grateful stimulus and the highly complex intellectual and emotional development implied in a distinct appreciation of objective beauty.

    Derived terms

    * consultary response

    Synonyms

    * reaction

    References

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