different between feeling vs understanding

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nd??stand??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nd??stænd??/
• Rhymes: -ænd??
• Hyphenation: un?der?stand?ing

Noun

understanding (countable and uncountable, plural understandings) (with of, but with for in sense of "sympathy")

1. (gerund, uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; comprehension; knowledge; discernment.
2. (countable) Reason or intelligence, ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge, ability to infer.
3. (countable) Opinion, judgement or outlook.

4. (countable) An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.
   1. An informal contract; mutual agreement.

   2. A reconciliation of differences.

5. (uncountable) Sympathy.

Derived terms

• peace that passeth understanding

Translations

See also

• intellection

Adjective

understanding (comparative more understanding, superlative most understanding)

1. Showing compassion.
2. (dated) Knowing; skilful.

Translations

Verb

understanding

1. present participle of understand