Feeling

The sense of touch; that power by which the mind through the nerves apprehends certain conditions of external objects or of the body itself. - The state of perception by the touch; the act of apprehending any object whatever; power of action upon sensibility. -Susceptibility; nice sensibility; excitement; emotion; sympathy with the distre ed; tenderne of heart; as, a man destitute of feeling, our angry feelings. ( Phil ) Primarily, the feelings denote the perceptions which we have of external objects by the sense of touch; but the term has also come to be applied to our inward sensations: thus a man may have a feeling of pleasure from heat, or from contemplating a beautiful landscape. We have intellectual, moral, sensual feelings, feelings of taste, . Sir W. Hamilton divides feelings into two great cla es, the mental and the corporeal, or, in other words, into sentiments and sensations. Though, strictly speaking, all consciousne and all F. is only mental, yet there are certain feelings that are clearly marked out to be in proximate relation to the body; and these he terms sensual feelings, or sensations, while the internal or mental feelings he terms sentiments. The sensations are divided into two cla es: those which accompany our perceptions through the five determinate senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing, and sight, and those which are comprised under the common or vital sense, as F. of heat and cold, F. of health, muscular F. , . The sentiments may be divided into two cla es, contempla tive and practical , the former being the concomitants of our cognitive powers, or powers of knowledge, the latter of our powers of cognation, or of will and desire. The feelings are not primitive and independent states, but merely states which accompany the exertion of our faculties or the excitation of our capacities, and take Feign'ing, n. Deceit; pretence; fiction. Feign'ingly, adv . In a false manner; with a umed and unreal appearance. Feint, ( faint ,) n. [Fr. feinte , from feindre . See FEIGN.] A pretence; an a umed or false appearance. ( Mil .) A mock attack;; as, "his remark was but a feint to elude the argument." (Fencing.) An appearance of aiming at one part of the body, when another is intended; - said of certain motions in boxing or fencing.