feeling vs impression what difference
what is difference between feeling and impression
English
Etymology
From Middle English felynge, equivalent to feel + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfiːlɪŋ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfilɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -iːlɪŋ
Adjective
feeling (comparative more feeling, superlative most feeling)
- Emotionally sensitive.
- Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling.
- Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
- He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Translations
Noun
feeling (plural feelings)
- Sensation, particularly through the skin.
- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling.
- Emotion; impression.
- The house gave me a feeling of dread.
- (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
- (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
- Many people still have feelings for their first love.
- 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
- An opinion, an attitude.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
feeling
- present participle of feel
Derived terms
- feeling no pain
Anagrams
- fine leg, fleeing, flingee
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English feeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi.liŋ/
Noun
feeling m (plural feelings)
- instinct, hunch
Anagrams
- églefin
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English feeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfi.linɡ/, /ˈfi.lin/
Noun
feeling m (invariable)
- an intense and immediate current of likability that is established between two people; feeling
References
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- filing
Noun
feeling m
- feeling, hunch
Synonyms
- osjećaj
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English feeling.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfilin/, [ˈfi.lĩn]
Noun
feeling m (plural feelings)
- feeling, hunch
- spark; attraction; feeling
English
Etymology
From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɹɛʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɛʃən
Noun
impression (plural impressions)
- The indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on or into another.
- The overall effect of something, e.g., on a person.
- A vague recalling of an event, a belief.
- An impersonation, an imitation of the mannerisms of another individual.
- An outward appearance.
- (advertising) An online advertising performance metric representing an instance where an ad is shown once.
- 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 329:
- Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.
- 2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (→ISBN), page 329:
- (painting) The first coat of colour, such as the priming in house-painting etc.
- (engraving) A print on paper from a wood block, metal plate, etc.
- (philosophy) The vivid perception of something as it is experienced, in contrast to ideas or thoughts drawn from memory or the imagination.
Related terms
- impressionability
- impressionable
- impressional
- impressionism
- impressionist
- impressive
- under the impression
Translations
Verb
impression (third-person singular simple present impressions, present participle impressioning, simple past and past participle impressioned)
- To manipulate a blank key within a lock so as to mark it with impressions of the shape of the lock, which facilitates creation of a duplicate key.
- 2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference (page 55)
- The trick in impressioning a key is to remove only a small amount of the blank, by filing or cutting, from the pin positions where impressions have been left.
- 2007, Graham Pulford, High-Security Mechanical Locks: An Encyclopedic Reference (page 55)
Anagrams
- permission
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin impressiō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.pʁɛ.sjɔ̃/, /ɛ̃.pʁe.sjɔ̃/
Noun
impression f (plural impressions)
- an impression, the overall effect of something.
- the indentation or depression made by the pressure of one object on another.
- a print, print-out
Derived terms
- faire bonne impression
- impressionnant
- impressionner
- impressionnisme
- impressionniste
Related terms
- empreindre
- imprimer
- imprimerie
- imprimante
- imprimable
Descendants
- Romanian: impresiune, impresie
Further reading
- “impression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- méprisions
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