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

  1. 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.

  2. Emotion as a noun:

    A reaction by a non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.

  1. Feeling as an adjective:

    Emotionally sensitive.

    Examples:

    "Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling."

  2. Feeling as an adjective:

    Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

    Examples:

    "He made a feeling representation of his wrongs."

  1. Feeling as a noun:

    Sensation, particularly through the skin.

    Examples:

    "The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling."

  2. Feeling as a noun:

    Emotion; impression.

    Examples:

    "The house gave me a feeling of dread."

  3. Feeling as a noun (always, _, in the plural):

    Emotional state or well-being.

    Examples:

    "You really hurt my feelings when you said that."

  4. Feeling as a noun (always, _, in the plural):

    Emotional attraction or desire.

    Examples:

    "Many people still have feelings for their first love."

  5. 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."

  6. Feeling as a noun:

    An opinion, an attitude.

  1. Feeling as a verb:

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