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.
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