Feeling

Feeling

Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences, other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth".

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Famous quotes containing the word feeling:

    After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
    Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

    BOSWELL. “I have often blamed myself, Sir, for not feeling for others as sensibly as many say they do.” JOHNSON. “Sir, don’t be duped by them any more. You will find these very feeling people are not very ready to do you good. They pay you by feeling.”
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)