feeling | the experiencing of affective and emotional states, she had a feeling of euphoria, he had terrible feelings of guilt, I disliked him and the feeling was mutual |
feeling intuitive feeling | an intuitive understanding of something, he had a great feeling for music |
feeling | a physical sensation that you experience, he had a queasy feeling, I had a strange feeling in my leg, he lost all feeling in his arm |
kinesthesia kinaesthesia feeling of movement | the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc |
touch touch sensation tactual sensation tactile sensation feeling | the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin, she likes the touch of silk on her skin, the surface had a greasy feeling |
impression feeling belief notion opinion | a vague idea in which some confidence is placed, his impression of her was favorable, what are your feelings about the crisis?, it strengthened my belief in his sincerity, I had a feeling that she was lying |
sinking sinking feeling | a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension, with a sinking heart, a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach |
class feeling | feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another |
temper mood humor humour | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling, whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time, he was in a bad humor |
sympathy fellow feeling | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
mood mode modality | verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
indicative mood indicative declarative mood declarative common mood fact mood | a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact |
subjunctive mood subjunctive | a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible |
optative mood optative | a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope, expressed in English by modal verbs |
imperative mood imperative jussive mood imperative form | a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior |
interrogative mood interrogative | some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood |
climate mood | the prevailing psychological state, the climate of opinion, the national mood had changed radically since the last election |
spirit tone feel feeling flavor flavour look smell | the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people, the feel of the city excited him, a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting, it had the smell of treason |
generous | more than adequate, a generous portion |
generous | willing to give and share unstintingly, a generous donation |
lavish munificent overgenerous too-generous unsparing unstinted unstinting | very generous, distributed gifts with a lavish hand, the critics were lavish in their praise, a munificent gift, his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent, prodigal praise, unsparing generosity, his unstinted devotion, called for unstinting aid to Britain |
generous | not petty in character and mind, unusually generous in his judgment of people |