{
    "term": "feeling",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "something that you feel through the mind or through the senses",
            "sensetop": "a feeling of something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **feeling of guilt/helplessness/anger/sadness**",
                    "contextForm": "a feeling of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He struggled with **feelings of isolation** and loneliness."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You might experience feelings of dizziness and nausea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **strange/horrible feeling**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You need to stop having these guilty feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've got a tight feeling in my stomach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I really resent the way he treated me.’ ‘**I know the feeling** *(= I know how you feel)*.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I'm going to miss you.’ ‘**The feeling's mutual** *(= I feel exactly the same)*.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I remember a terrible feeling of helplessness and anger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was suffering from feelings of inadequacy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They began a friendship based on their mutual feeling of isolation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had this awful feeling of dread."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Constant comparisons can undermine your confidence and create a feeling of insecurity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We can help you deal with feelings of anxiety."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was left with a vague feeling of sadness at the end."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was just a great feeling of excitement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "his feelings of grief"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was determined to banish all feelings of guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He still harboured feelings of resentment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a strange feeling in my stomach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A horrible feeling of sickness came over me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He felt a wonderful warm feeling come over him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the painful feeling in his gut"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a weird feeling giving a speech at your old school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was such an overwhelming feeling seeing them again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a lovely feeling when everything's going so well."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She experienced a whole range of feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She loved the feeling of being close to him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The video conveys a feeling of optimism."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't have those guilt feelings any more."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I fought back my feelings of jealousy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He suddenly had a terrible sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hated the feeling of uncertainty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I started to get a familiar feeling in my stomach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I tried to ignore my irrational feelings of jealousy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to hear him say that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a good feeling to be arriving home again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Rielle had an overwhelming feeling of guilt."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She ignored the queasy feeling in her stomach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was the practical aspect of life that heightened her feelings of loneliness and loss."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The drink gave me a feeling of confidence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gives me this creepy feeling."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["strong", "overwhelming", "definite"],
                "verb + feeling": ["experience", "feel", "get"],
                "feeling + verb": [
                    "come over somebody",
                    "creep over somebody",
                    "be mutual"
                ],
                "preposition": ["feeling about", "feeling of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person’s emotions rather than their thoughts or ideas",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He hates talking about his feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to **express/share your feelings**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "People's words often hide their **true feelings**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Talk to someone about your **thoughts and feelings**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't mean to **hurt your feelings** *(= offend you)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had never been one to share his feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She finds it difficult to express her feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's nothing wrong with showing your feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You need to realize that your parents have feelings too."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's not very in touch with his feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Can you try to describe your feelings at this moment?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wanted just to be able to let his feelings out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I finally gave vent to my feelings and started yelling at him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We discussed our innermost feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When people fight, there are bound to be hurt feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was lucky that she had suffered no more than hurt feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry if I've hurt your feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her poems reflected her personal feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She could finally release her pent-up feelings."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Feelings"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "intense", "strong"],
                "verb + feelings": ["experience", "harbour/​harbor", "have"],
                "feelings + verb": [
                    "sweep over somebody",
                    "wash over somebody",
                    "well up inside somebody"
                ],
                "preposition": ["feeling about", "feeling for", "feeling of"],
                "phrases": ["no hard feelings"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "strong emotion",
            "sensetop": "feeling about somethingwith feeling",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**Feeling runs deep** *(= people feel strongly)* on this issue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **depth/strength of feeling** about an issue",
                    "contextForm": "feeling about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spoke with feeling about the plight of homeless people.",
                    "contextForm": "with feeling"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The debate aroused **strong feelings** on both sides."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Feelings are running high** *(= people are very angry or excited)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Feelings were running high as the meeting continued."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government has underestimated the depth of feeling about this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was taken aback by the strength of feeling at the meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the sheer intensity of feeling that drove these changes"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was a perfect tool to arouse local feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their aim was to stir up feeling against the war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He invests so much feeling in his work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave a speech full of passion and feeling."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "intense", "strong"],
                "verb + feelings": ["experience", "harbour/​harbor", "have"],
                "feelings + verb": [
                    "sweep over somebody",
                    "wash over somebody",
                    "well up inside somebody"
                ],
                "preposition": ["feeling about", "feeling for", "feeling of"],
                "phrases": ["no hard feelings"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "an attitude or opinion about something",
            "sensetop": "feeling about somethingfeeling on somethingfeeling towards/toward somebody/something",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The **general feeling** was against the decision."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My own feeling is that we should buy the cheaper one."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Public feeling is being ignored by the government."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't have any **strong feelings** about it one way or the other.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She **had mixed feelings** about giving up her job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You know my feelings on this.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "his complicated feelings towards his classmates",
                    "contextForm": "feeling towards/toward somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are completely ignoring the feelings of local people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have mixed feelings on that."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't like it, but I kept my feelings to myself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are strong feelings both for and against the idea."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most people's feelings are against the war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My feelings about the changes are mostly positive."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are your feelings on this issue?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Personal feelings don't come into it—we have to do what's right."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had mixed feelings about meeting them again."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want there to be any ill feeling about this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What are your feelings towards religion now?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He wants to overcome his negative feelings toward women."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My feeling towards this album is similar to yours—I admire it, but I don't love it."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["deep", "intense", "strong"],
                "verb + feelings": ["experience", "harbour/​harbor", "have"],
                "feelings + verb": [
                    "sweep over somebody",
                    "wash over somebody",
                    "well up inside somebody"
                ],
                "preposition": ["feeling about", "feeling for", "feeling of"],
                "phrases": ["no hard feelings"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "the idea or belief that a particular thing is true or a particular situation is likely to happen",
            "sensetop": "feeling (that)…feeling of (doing) somethingfeeling about something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Our **gut feeling** tells us that this will work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I **got the feeling** he didn't like me much.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling (that)…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had this **nagging feeling** that I had forgotten something."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He suddenly had the feeling of being followed.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling of (doing) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a **bad feeling** about this *(= I have the impression it is not going to go well)*.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong with him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you get the feeling that we're not welcome here?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "My gut feeling was that it had been a mistake to come."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We had this feeling of impending doom."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had this feeling of danger."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a feeling about that place."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't have a good feeling about the situation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've got a really good feeling about this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a nasty feeling that she was lying to me."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My gut feeling was that we couldn't trust her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was left with the feeling that he did not care."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have a weird feeling everything's going to be OK."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a feeling you were going to do that!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She had the strange feeling he already knew what she was going to say."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've got a funny feeling you're going to win tomorrow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had a nasty feeling that we were lost."
                },
                {
                    "text": "'Do you think he meant to do it?'—'That's my feeling, yes.'"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you get a good feeling from it, then buy it."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "impression",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["strong", "overwhelming", "definite"],
                "verb + feeling": ["experience", "feel", "get"],
                "feeling + verb": [
                    "come over somebody",
                    "creep over somebody",
                    "be mutual"
                ],
                "preposition": ["feeling about", "feeling of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "sympathy or love for somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "feeling for somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He never told her his feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have no feeling for the sufferings of others.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I still **have feelings** for her *(= feel attracted to her in a romantic way)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Although she did not reciprocate his feelings, she did not discourage him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can bring out Aminta's romantic feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He never told her his true feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They definitely have feelings for each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Feelings don't always last."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When you work closely together, feelings can develop."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Heather is slowly admitting her feelings."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They begin to develop feelings for one another."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a sweet old man with genuine feelings for Virginia"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It makes no difference to my feelings for you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She still had a lot of feeling for David."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the feeling between a mother and child"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the depth of feeling between old friends"
                },
                {
                    "text": "What I love about this book is its genuine feeling for people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How can you be so cruel? Have you no feeling?"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "wonderful", "genuine"],
                "verb + feeling": ["have", "develop"],
                "preposition": ["with feeling", "feeling for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 7,
            "definition": "the ability to feel physically",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've lost all feeling in my legs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Feeling gradually began to return to my frozen feet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Will she ever get the feeling back in her fingers?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Wait for the feeling to come back into your arm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You may experience a loss of feeling in your extremities."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had no feeling in my toes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I seemed to be losing the feeling in my feet."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + feeling": ["lose", "regain"],
                "preposition": ["feeling in"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 8,
            "definition": "the ability to understand somebody/something or to do something in a sensitive way",
            "sensetop": "feeling for somebody/somethingfeeling of something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He played the piano with great feeling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has a wonderful feeling for colour.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling for somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had developed a feeling for when not to disturb her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had great design sense, and a great feeling of proportion.",
                    "contextForm": "feeling of something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She plays her part with feeling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His performance was accurate, but lacked feeling."
                },
                {
                    "text": "As a writer she has a great feeling for different perspectives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His work shows a powerful feeling for the grandeur of nature."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His earthy yet poetic feeling for character may be considered typically English."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The designer shows an exquisite feeling for texture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Once they'd seen the footage, they started to get a feeling of how it was working on screen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She has no feeling of how to get people on her side."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a film-maker who has a great feeling of place"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["great", "wonderful", "genuine"],
                "verb + feeling": ["have", "develop"],
                "preposition": ["with feeling", "feeling for"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 9,
            "definition": "the atmosphere of a place, situation, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They have managed to recreate the feeling of the original theatre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house had a feeling of neglect about it."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's a great patriotic feeling in the country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a feeling of sadness in the room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a general feeling of change in the air."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have managed to recreate the feeling of the original building."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Light colours create a feeling of spaciousness."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + feeling": ["create", "recreate"],
                "preposition": ["feeling of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "anger between people, especially after an argument",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There was a lot of bad feeling between the two groups of students."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want any bad feelings between us."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used after you have been arguing with somebody or have beaten them in a contest but you would still like to be friendly with them",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It looks like I'm the winner again. No hard feelings, Dave, eh?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Someone has to lose. No hard feelings, eh?"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "an unpleasant feeling that you get when you realize that something bad has happened or is going to happen",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I had a horrible sinking feeling when I saw the ambulance outside the house."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be careful not to do or say anything that might upset somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I kept off the subject of divorce so as to spare her feelings."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fe/feeling/feeling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfiːlɪŋ/",
                "audio": "fe/feeling/feeling__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": null
}