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"감정"이라는 단어는
명사로서
"느끼는 마음.
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feeling
n.- The sensation involving perception by touch.
- A sensation experienced through touch.
- A physical sensation: a feeling of warmth.
- An affective state of consciousness, such as that resulting from emotions, sentiments, or desires: experienced a feeling of excitement.
- An awareness or impression: He had the feeling that he was being followed.
- An emotional state or disposition; an emotion: expressed deep feeling.
- A tender emotion; a fondness.
- Capacity to experience the higher emotions; sensitivity; sensibility: a man of feeling.
- feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities: The child's feelings are easily hurt.
- Opinion based more on emotion than on reason; sentiment.
- A general impression conveyed by a person, place, or thing: The stuffy air gave one the feeling of being in a tomb.
- Appreciative regard or understanding: a feeling for propriety.
- Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel: has a feeling for language.
adj.- Having the ability to react or feel emotionally; sentient; sensitive.
- Easily moved emotionally; sympathetic: a feeling heart.
- Expressive of sensibility or emotion: a feeling glance.
feelingly /feel'ing·ly/
adv.
SYNONYMSfeeling, emotion, passion, sentiment. These nouns refer to complex and usually strong subjective human response. Although
feeling and
emotion are sometimes interchangeable,
feeling is the more general and neutral:
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity” (William Wordsworth).
Emotion often implies the presence of excitement or agitation:
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion” (T.S. Eliot).
Passion is intense, compelling emotion:
“They seemed like ungoverned children inflamed with the fiercest passions of men” (Francis Parkman).
Sentiment often applies to a thought or opinion arising from or influenced by emotion:
We expressed our sentiments about the government's policies.The word can also refer to delicate, sensitive, or higher or more refined feelings:
“The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people” (Walter Bagehot).
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