What is feel?

More definitions of "feel":

• (verb): Seem with respect to a given sensation given.
  Example: "My cold is gone--I feel fine today"; "She felt tired after the long hike"

• (verb): Examine (a body part) by palpation.
  Synonyms: palpate

• (verb): Examine by touch.
  Example: "Feel this soft cloth!"
  Synonyms: finger

• (verb): Pass one's hands over the sexual organs of.
  Example: "He felt the girl in the movie theater"

• (verb): Grope or feel in search of something.
  Example: "He felt for his wallet"

• (verb): Find by testing or cautious exploration.
  Example: "He felt his way around the dark room"

• (verb): Produce a certain impression.
  Example: "It feels nice to be home again"

• (verb): Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles.
  Synonyms: sense

• (verb): Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.
  Example: "I feel that he doesn't like me"
  Synonyms: find

• (noun): An intuitive awareness.
  Example: "He has a feel for animals" or "it's easy when you get the feel of it"

• (noun): Manual-genital stimulation for sexual pleasure.
  Example: "The girls hated it when he tried to sneak a feel"

• (noun): A property perceived by touch.
  Synonyms: tactile property

• (verb): .
  Example: "Undergo passive experience of:"We felt the effects of inflation"; "her fingers felt their way through the string quartet"; "she felt his contempt of her"

• (verb): Undergo an emotional sensation.
  Synonyms: experience

• (noun): The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people.
  Example: "The feel of the city excited him"
  Synonyms: spirit, tone, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell

• (verb): Be felt or perceived in a certain way.
  Example: "The ground feels shaky"; "The sheets feel soft"

Famous quotes containing the word feel:

“Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“How to attain sufficient clarity of thought to meet the terrifying issues now facing us, before it is too late, is ... important. Of one thing I feel reasonably sure: we can’t stop to discuss whether the table has or hasn’t legs when the house is burning down over our heads. Nor do the classics per se seem to furnish the kind of education which fits people to cope with a fast-changing civilization.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

“I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.”
—Anita Loos (1893–1981)