Underfeeling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈʌndəfiːlɪŋ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Underfeeling is a noun meaning A secondary or subconscious feeling.
Meaning
A secondary or subconscious feeling.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of underfeel
Example Sentences
He's forgotten Sheila, in fact, and if he's thinking about friends, it's only a vague underfeeling that he would be really impressive if allied with Virginia Novello.
She had said to him: ‘Oh…a little caviare! A peach!’ a long time before, with the vague under-feeling that the names of such comestibles must convey to her person a charm in the eyes of Caliban.
‘It is from a more general cause: simply an underfeeling I have that at the most propitious moment the distance to the possibility of sorrow is so short that a man's spirits must not rise higher than mere cheerfulness out of bare respect to his insight.’
Word Forms
- underfeelings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include undercurrent, subsensation, undersong, feel, undersense, metaemotion.
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