different between feeling vs intoxication

English

Etymology

From Middle English felyng, equivalent to feel +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fi?l??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fil??/
• Rhymes: -i?l??

Adjective

feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)

1. Emotionally sensitive.

   Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.

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

   He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

Translations

Noun

feeling (plural feelings)

1. Sensation, particularly through the skin.

   The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.

2. Emotion; impression.

   The house gave me a feeling of dread.

3. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.

   You really hurt my feelings when you said that.

4. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.

   Many people still have feelings for their first love.

5. Intuition.

   He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.

   I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.

   • 1987, The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

     Got on a lucky one

     Came in eighteen to one

     I've got a feeling

     This year's for me and you

6. An opinion, an attitude.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

feeling

1. present participle of feel

Derived terms

• feeling no pain

Anagrams

• fine leg, fleeing, flingee

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.li?/

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. instinct, hunch

Anagrams

• églefin

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi.li?/

Noun

feeling m (invariable)

1. an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• filing

Noun

feeling m

1. feeling, hunch

Synonyms

• osje?aj

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English feeling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?filin/, [?fi.l?n]

Noun

feeling m (plural feelings)

1. feeling, hunch
2. spark; attraction; feeling

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nt?ks??ke???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nt?ks??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: in?tox?i?ca?tion

Noun

intoxication (countable and uncountable, plural intoxications)

1. A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

   He suffered acute intoxication from the combined effects of several drugs.

2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk.

   Synonyms: inebriation, ebriety, drunkenness

3. The act of intoxicating or making drunk.
4. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.

Translations

French

Etymology

From intoxiquer +? -tion

Pronunciation

Noun

intoxication f (plural intoxications)

1. poisoning
2. the act of spreading false information or propaganda

Usage notes

In French, the word intoxication is used more broadly than in English to refer to the poisoning of an organism by a variety of means such as herbicide or poisonous gas as well as by alcohol or narcotics.

Derived terms

• intoxication alimentaire

Further reading

• “intoxication” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

intoxication (uncountable)

1. intoxication