Feeling vs. Idea

Feelingadjective

Emotionally sensitive.

Feelingadjective

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

Feelingnoun

Sensation, particularly through the skin.

Feelingnoun

Emotion; impression.

Feelingnoun

Emotional state or well-being.

Feelingnoun

Emotional attraction or desire.

Feelingnoun

Intuition.

Feelingnoun

An opinion, an attitude.

Feelingverb

present participle of feel

Feelingadjective

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

Feelingadjective

Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

Feelingnoun

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.

Feelingnoun

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.

Feelingnoun

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.

Feelingnoun

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.

Feelingnoun

That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

Feelingnoun

the experiencing of affective and emotional states;

Feelingnoun

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

Feelingnoun

the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

Feelingnoun

a physical sensation that you experience;

Feelingnoun

the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin;

Feelingnoun

an intuitive understanding of something;

Feelingnoun

an emotional state or reaction

Feelingnoun

the emotional side of someone's character; emotional responses or tendencies to respond

Feelingnoun

strong emotion

Feelingnoun

an idea or belief, especially a vague or irrational one

Feelingnoun

an attitude or opinion

Feelingnoun

the capacity to experience the sense of touch

Feelingnoun

the sensation of touching or being touched by a particular thing

Feelingnoun

a sensitivity to or intuitive understanding of

Feelingadjective

showing emotion or sensitivity

Feeling

Feeling was originally used to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe other experiences, such as and of sentience in general.

Ideanoun

(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The conception of someone or something as representing a perfect example; an ideal.

Ideanoun

(obsolete) The form or shape of something; a quintessential aspect or characteristic.

Ideanoun

An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory.

Ideanoun

More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking.

Ideanoun

A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention.

Ideanoun

A purposeful aim or goal; intent

Ideanoun

A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression.

Ideanoun

(music) A musical theme or melodic subject.

Ideanoun

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.

Ideanoun

A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.

Ideanoun

Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.

Ideanoun

A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.

Ideanoun

A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.

Ideanoun

A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.

Ideanoun

A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.

Ideanoun

the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about;

Ideanoun

a personal view;

Ideanoun

an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth;

Ideanoun

your intention; what you intend to do;

Ideanoun

(music) melodic subject of a musical composition;

Ideanoun

a thought or suggestion as to a possible course of action

Ideanoun

a mental impression

Ideanoun

an opinion or belief

Ideanoun

the aim or purpose

Ideanoun

(in Platonic thought) an eternally existing pattern of which individual things in any class are imperfect copies.

Ideanoun

(in Kantian thought) a concept of pure reason, not empirically based in experience.

Idea

In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are abstract concepts. Also in philosophy, ideas can also be mental representational images of some object.