Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Feeling

Nouns
  • feeling
  • suffering etc. v.
  • endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response
  • sympathy etc. (love) Love
  • impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense. warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence
  • fervor, fervency
  • heartiness, cordiality
  • earnestness, eagerness
  • gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism
  • excitation of feeling etc. Excitation
  • fullness of the heart etc. (disposition) Affections
  • passion etc. (state of excitability) [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability
  • ecstasy etc. (pleasure) Pleasure. blush, suffusion, flush
  • hectic
  • tingling, thrill, turn, shock
  • agitation etc. (irregular motion) [Irregular motion] Agitation
  • quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor
  • throb, throbbing
  • pulsation, palpitation, panting
  • trepidation, perturbation
  • ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment
  • state of excitement.
Verbs
  • feel
  • receive an impression etc. n.
  • be impressed with etc. adj.
  • entertain feeling, harbor feeling, cherish feeling etc. n.. respond
  • catch the flame, catch the infection
  • enter the spirit of. bear, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole [Scot.], aby
  • abide etc. (be composed) [Absence of excitability, or of excitement.] Inexcitability
  • experience etc. (meet with) Eventuality
  • taste, prove
  • labor under, smart under
  • bear the brunt of, brave, stand. swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, change color, mantle
  • turn color, turn pale, turn red, turn black in the face
  • tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter
  • shake etc. [Irregular motion] Agitation
  • be agitated, be excited etc. Excitation
  • look blue, look black
  • wince
  • draw a deep breath. impress etc. (excite the feelings) Excitation.
Adjectives
  • feeling etc. v.
  • sentient
  • sensuous
  • sensorial, sensory
  • emotive, emotional
  • of feeling, with feeling etc. n.. warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive
  • keen, keen as a razor
  • trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic. impressive, deep, profound, indelible
  • deep felt, home felt, heartfelt
  • swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic. earnest, wistful, eager, breathless
  • fervent
  • fervid
  • gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming
  • boiling over. pervading, penetrating, absorbing
  • rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical
  • impetuous etc. (excitable) [Excess of sensitiveness] Excitability. impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with etc. Conformity
  • devoured by
  • wrought up etc. (excited) Excitation
  • struck all of a heap
  • rapt
  • in a quiver etc. n.
  • enraptured etc. [Capability of giving pleasure; cause or source of pleasure.] Pleasurableness.
Adverbs
  • heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, at heart, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels.
Phrases
  • the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking
  • the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy) Love.