FEELINGS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does feelings mean? 

• FEELINGS (noun)
  The noun FEELINGS has 1 sense:

1. emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity)

  Familiarity information: FEELINGS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEELINGS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotional or moral sensitivity (especially in relation to personal principles or dignity)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

the remark hurt his feelings

Hypernyms ("feelings" is a kind of...):

sensitiveness; sensitivity (sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others))

Derivation:

feel (have a feeling or perception about oneself in reaction to someone's behavior or attitude)

feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

 Context examples 

If you are true, and your offer real, my only feelings to you must be gratitude and devotion—they cannot torture.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Henry rejoiced in my gaiety, and sincerely sympathised in my feelings: he exerted himself to amuse me, while he expressed the sensations that filled his soul.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Beth's bundle was such a funny one that everybody wanted to laugh, but nobody did, for it would have hurt her feelings very much.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

You have done something to mitigate my feelings for the loathsome profession to which you unhappily belong.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And within him it aroused feelings which he had likewise never experienced before.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Hurt his feelings, and lost him his situation.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Was it the part of a friend thus to expose her feelings to the notice of others?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But neither Charles Hayter's feelings, nor anybody's feelings, could interest her, till she had a little better arranged her own.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-A (BPRS-A) Guilt feelings.

(BPRS-A - Guilt Feelings, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an individual's inability to comprehend or share ideas or feelings because of an impairment in language, speech, or hearing.

(Communication Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)