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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section I. Affections in General |
| Section IV. Possessive Relations |
| 821. Feeling. |
| NOUN: | FEELING; suffering &c. v.; endurance, tolerance, sufferance, experience, response; sympathy (love) [See Love]; impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense. WARMTH, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement [F.], gush [colloq.], ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore [It.], furor, fanaticism; excitation of feeling [See Excitation]; fullness of the heart (disposition) [See Affections]; passion &c. (state of excitability) [See Excitability]; ecstasy (pleasure) [See Pleasure]. STATE OF EXCITEMENT; blush, suffusion, flush; hectic, hectic fever, hectic flush; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation &c. (irregular motion) [See Agitation]; quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew [colloq.], ferment. |
| VERB: | FEEL; receive an impression &c. n.; be impressed with &c. adj.; entertain -, harbor -, cherish- -feeling &c. n. RESPOND; catch the -flame, - infection; enter into the spirit of. BEAR, suffer, support, sustain, endure, thole [obs. or dial.], aby or abye; brook; abide &c. (be composed) [See Inexcitability]; experience &c. (meet with) [See Eventuality]; taste, prove; labor -, smart- under; bear the brunt of, brave, stand. BE AGITATED, be excited [See Excitation]; swell, glow, warm, flush, blush, crimson, change color, mantle; darken, whiten, pale; turn -color, - pale, - red, - black in the face; tingle, thrill, heave, pant, throb, palpitate, go pitapat, tremble, quiver, flutter, twitter; shake [See Agitation]; blench, stagger, reel; look -blue, - black; wince, draw a deep breath. impress &c. (excite the feelings) [See Excitation]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | FEELING &c. v.; sentient; sensuous, sensorial, sensory; emotive, emotional; of or with feeling &c. n. LIVELY, quick, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, - as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic. IMPRESSIVE, deep, profound, indelible; deep-felt, homefelt, heart-felt; swelling, soul-stirring, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic; prevading, penetrating, absorbing. EARNEST, wistful, eager, breathless; fervent, fervid, gushing [colloq.], warm, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming; boiling, - over. RABID, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical; impetuous (excitable) [See Excitability]; overmastering. IMPRESSED -, moved -, touched -, affected -, penetrated -, seized -, imbued [See Affections]- with; devoured by; wrought up (excited) [See Excitation]; struck all of a heap [colloq.]; rapt; in a quiver &c. n.; enraptured [See Pleasurableness]. the heart -big, - full, - swelling, - beating, - pulsating, - throbbing, - thumping, - beating high, - melting, - overflowing, -bursting, - breaking. |
| ADVERB: | HEARTILY, heart and soul, from the bottom of one’s heart, ab imo pectore L.], de profundis [L.]; at heart, con amore [It.], devoutly, over head and ears. |
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