feelings
Example Sentences
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When we assign deeper intentions to a person’s actions, we might unnecessarily hurt our own feelings.
From MarketWatch
He observes that labeling certain feelings as negative justifies attempts to banish them, but he counsels doing the opposite.
Kaley also noted that her first feelings of anxiety and depression arose when she was nine and 10 years old.
From BBC
The youngest Fox sisters’ initial thoughts and feelings about the events in Hydesville remained unknown.
From Literature
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Like every other detail here, that implicit complaint is dusty and ossified, and Mr. Williamson’s formerly wised-up dialogue has been supplanted by a grinding earnestness, with everyone constantly asking about one another’s feelings.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.