| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, belief, conceit, concept, conception, conjecture, conviction, fancy, feel, hunch, image, inkling, intellection, memory, notion, opinion, perception, recollection, sensation, sense, supposition, suspicion, theory, thought, view |
| Antonyms: | materiality, physicality |
| Main Entry: | nap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grain of material |
| Synonyms: | down, feel, fiber, grit, outside, pile, roughness, shag, smoothness, surface, tooth, wale, warp, weave, weft, woof |
| Main Entry: | semblance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aura, appearance |
| Synonyms: | affinity, air, alikeness, analogy, aspect, bearing, comparison, facade, face, false front, feel, feeling, figure, form, front, guise, image, likeness, mask, mien, mood, pose, pretense, resemblance, seeming, show, showing, similarity, simile, similitude, simulacrum, veil, veneer |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of animate being |
| Synonyms: | faculty, feel, function, hearing, impression, kinesthesia, sensation, sensibility, sensitivity, sight, smell, taste, touch |
| Main Entry: | sense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | awareness, perception |
| Synonyms: | ability, appreciation, atmosphere, aura, brains, capacity, clear-headedness, cleverness, cognizance, common sense, consciousness, discernment, discrimination, feel, feeling, gumption*, imagination, impression, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mentality, mind, premonition, presentiment, prudence, quickness, reason, reasoning, recognition, sagacity, sanity, sentiment, sharpness, smarts, soul, spirit, tact, thought, understanding, wisdom, wit |
| Main Entry: | texture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charactertistics of a surface |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, essentiality, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, fineness, flexibility, form, framework, grain, intermixture, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, tissue, touch, warp, weave, web, woof |
| Main Entry: | tone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attitude, spirit |
| Synonyms: | air, approach, aspect, character, condition, current, drift, effect, expression, fashion, feel, frame, grain, habit, humor, manner, mind, mode, mood, movement, nature, note, quality, state of things, strain, style, temper, tenor, trend, vein |
| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical contact |
| Synonyms: | blow, brush, caress, collision, communication, contact, contingence, crash, cuddling, embrace, feel, feeling, fondling, graze, grope, handling, hit, hug, impact, junction, kiss, lick, manipulation, nudge, palpation, pat, peck, perception, percussion, petting, push, rub, rubbing, scratch, shock, stroke, stroking, tactility, taction, tap, taste, touching |
| Main Entry: | local color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regional character |
| Synonyms: | ambience, color, evocation, feel, note, regional detail, sense of place, vibes |