Feeling vs Zeal - What's the difference?
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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 fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.
* Dryden
* Bible, Romans x. 2
(obsolete) A zealot.
As nouns the difference between feeling and zeal
is that feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin while zeal is the fervor or tireless devotion for a person, cause, or ideal and determination in its furtherance; diligent enthusiasm; powerful interest.As an adjective feeling
is emotionally sensitive.As a verb feeling
is present participle of lang=en.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
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*Anagrams
* * ----zeal
English
Noun
- Zeal , the blind conductor of the will.
- I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
- (Ben Jonson)