The difference between Emotion and Feeling
When used as nouns, emotion means a person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data, whereas feeling means sensation, particularly through the skin.
Feeling is also adjective with the meaning: emotionally sensitive.
check bellow for the other definitions of Emotion and Feeling
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Emotion as a noun:
A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
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Emotion as a noun:
A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
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Feeling as an adjective:
Emotionally sensitive.
Examples:
"Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling."
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Feeling as an adjective:
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
Examples:
"He made a feeling representation of his wrongs."
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Feeling as a noun:
Sensation, particularly through the skin.
Examples:
"The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling."
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Feeling as a noun:
Emotion; impression.
Examples:
"The house gave me a feeling of dread."
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Feeling as a noun (always, _, in the plural):
Emotional state or well-being.
Examples:
"You really hurt my feelings when you said that."
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Feeling as a noun (always, _, in the plural):
Emotional attraction or desire.
Examples:
"Many people still have feelings for their first love."
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Feeling as a noun:
Intuition.
Examples:
"He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition."
"I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work."
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Feeling as a noun:
An opinion, an attitude.
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Feeling as a verb: