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Sense vs Feeling - What's the difference?

sense | feeling |

As nouns the difference between sense and feeling

is that sense is (manner to perceive) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste while feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin.

As verbs the difference between sense and feeling

is that sense is to use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel while feeling is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective feeling is

emotionally sensitive.

sense

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid) Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (William Shakespeare)
  • Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Milton)
  • What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate.
  • (senseid)Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
  • a sense of security
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) Sir (Philip Sidney)
  • this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Milton)
  • high disdain from sense of injured merit
  • (senseid)Sound practical or moral judgment.
  • It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (w, L'Estrange)
  • Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
  • (senseid)The meaning, reason, or value of something.
  • You don’t make any sense .
    the true sense of words or phrases
  • * Bible, Neh. viii. 8
  • So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense .
  • * (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
  • I think 'twas in another sense .
  • (senseid)A natural appreciation or ability.
  • A keen musical sense
  • (senseid)(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
  • (senseid)(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
  • (mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
  • (mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
  • (senseid) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
  • Hyponyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sense of smell (see olfaction) * (l)

    See also

    * business sense * common sense * sixth sense * sight / vision * hearing / audition * taste / gustation * smell / olfaction * touch / tactition * thermoception * nociception * equilibrioception * proprioception

    Verb

    (sens)
  • To use biological senses: to either smell, watch, taste, hear or feel.
  • To instinctively be aware.
  • She immediately sensed her disdain.
  • To comprehend.
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    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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