Feeling

English-Latin

feeling, n.

1. The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
   • tactus (-us, masc.)
   • sensus (-us, masc.)
2. Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever.
   • sensus (-us, masc.)
   • affectus (-us, masc.)
3. The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body.
   • sensus (-us, masc.)
   • affectus (-us, masc.)