different between feeling vs suggestion

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

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggesti?, from suggero (“suggest”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??d???st??n/, [s??d????t??n]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s???d???st??n/, /s??d???st??n/
• Hyphenation: sug?ges?tion

Noun

suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)

1. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

   I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

   Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

2. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
5. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

Synonyms

• (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

Related terms

• suggest
• suggestive

Translations

Finnish

Noun

suggestion

1. Genitive singular form of suggestio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.??s.tj??/

Noun

suggestion f (plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal
2. suggestion (psychology, etc.)

Derived terms

• boîte à suggestions

Related terms

• suggérer

Further reading

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

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.

Noun

suggestion f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal

References

• suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub