| 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 |
sympathy
fellow feeling | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) |
sick benefit
sickness benefit | money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work |
| altitude sickness | effects (as nosebleed or nausea) of oxygen deficiency in the blood and tissues at high altitudes |
| mountain sickness | nausea and shortness of breath experienced by mountain climbers above ten thousand feet |
illness
unwellness
malady
sickness | impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism |
decompression sickness
aeroembolism air embolism gas embolism caisson disease
bends | pain resulting from rapid change in pressure |
| milk sickness | caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles |
sweating sickness
miliary fever | epidemic in the th and th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality |
| ozone sickness | illness that can occur to persons exposed to ozone in high-altitude aircraft, characterized by sleepiness and headache and chest pains and itchiness |
motion sickness
kinetosis | the state of being dizzy or nauseated because of the motions that occur while traveling in or on a moving vehicle |
airsickness
air sickness | motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) |
| car sickness | motion sickness experienced while traveling in a car |
| sweating sickness | a disease of cattle (especially calves) |
trembles
milk sickness | disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot |
radiation sickness
radiation syndrome
radiation | syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions), low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair, greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases, severe exposure can cause death within hours, he was suffering from radiation |
sleeping sickness
sleepy sickness
epidemic encephalitis
lethargic encephalitis
encephalitis lethargica | an encephalitis that was epidemic between and , symptoms include paralysis of the extrinsic eye muscle and extreme muscular weakness |
nausea
sickness | the state that precedes vomiting |
| morning sickness | nausea early in the day, a characteristic symptom in the early months of pregnancy |
| sickness | defectiveness or unsoundness, drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure, a great sickness of his judgment |
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 |
serum sickness
serum disease | a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum |