| feeling | The psychosomatic (but non-sensory-perceptual) form (whether appetitive or emotional) in which a person experiences a sense of the need satisfying significance to oneself of some aspect of reality, and to what degree. ElaborationA feeling is an affective experience. Feeling is experienced physically and mentally, but non-sensory-perceptually, because it differs from
sense-perceptions of pleasure or pain, such as those experienced in taste or touch. |