\Feel"ing\, a.
1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved;
   as, a feeling heart.
2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing,
   sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his
   wrongs.

\Feel"ing\, n.
1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the
   body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the
   body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in
   the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body,
   especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous
   sensibility to external objects.
         Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye
         confined, . . . And not, as feeling, through all
         parts diffused?                       --Milton.
2. An act or state of perception by the sense above
   described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an
   act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself;
   consciousness.
         The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater
         feeling to the worse.                 --Shak.
3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high
   degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the
   sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of
   feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
4. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the
   capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a
   right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly
   feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
         A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. --Garrick.
         Tenderness for the feelings of others. --Macaulay.
5. That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental
   emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect
   similarly the spectator. --Fairholt.
Syn: Sensation; emotion; passion; sentiment; agitation;
     opinion. See {Emotion}, {Passion}, {Sentiment}.