Emotions / A2

FEEL-ing/ˈfiːlɪŋ/

A feeling is an emotion or a body sensation: a feeling of fear, hurt someone’s feelings, a strange feeling in my knee. Emotion is a more formal cousin. Feel is the verb. Filling is food inside a sandwich — mix-up. Do not write feeling when you mean filling, or falling.

Meaning

An emotion, or something you notice in your body.

Examples

• “A feeling of relief came when we saw our bags.”
• “I had a feeling we were on the wrong platform.”
• “Sorry if I hurt your feelings about the shared bill.”

Good to know

a feeling of / hurt someone’s feelings. Verb: feel. Mix-up: filling.

Near in meaning

emotion

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