Attitude vs. Feeling — What's the Difference?

A settled way of thinking or feeling about something

Feeling was originally used to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe other experiences, such as "a feeling of warmth" and of sentience in general.

Truculent or uncooperative behaviour

An emotional state or reaction

The orientation of an aircraft or spacecraft, relative to the direction of travel.

An idea or belief, especially a vague or irrational one

A manner of thinking, feeling, or behaving that reflects a state of mind or disposition

The capacity to experience the sense of touch

Arrogant or aggressive disposition or behavior

A sensitivity to or intuitive understanding of

A position of the body or manner of carrying oneself

Showing emotion or sensitivity

A position similar to an arabesque in which a ballet dancer stands on one leg with the other raised either in front or in back and bent at the knee.

The sense of touch

The orientation of an aircraft's axes relative to a reference line or plane, such as the horizon.

A sensation experienced through this sense

The orientation of a spacecraft relative to its direction of motion.

A physical sensation other than one experienced though touch

The position of the body or way of carrying oneself.

An emotion, such as joy or sorrow

(figurative) Disposition or state of mind.

Strong mental agitation or excitement involving the emotions

Unpleasant behavior.

An emotion of affection; a fondness

The orientation of a vehicle or other object relative to the horizon, direction of motion, other objects, etc.

The capacity to experience refined emotions; sensitivity; sensibility

(ballet) A position similar to arabesque, but with the raised leg bent at the knee.

Feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities

To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.

An awareness or impression

To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.

An opinion based strongly on emotion; sentiment

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

A general impression conveyed by a person, place, or thing

The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty.

The emotions thought to be conveyed or intended by a work of art

Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion.

Appreciative regard or understanding

A complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways;

Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel

Position or arrangement of the body and its limbs;

Easily moved emotionally; sympathetic

A theatrical pose created for effect;

Expressive of sensibility or emotion

Position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)

Emotionally sensitive.

Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.

Sensation, particularly through the skin.

Emotion; impression.

Emotional state or well-being.

Emotional attraction or desire.

Intuition.

An opinion, an attitude.

Present participle of feel

Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.

Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.

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.

An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.

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; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.

Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.

That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

The experiencing of affective and emotional states;

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people;

A physical sensation that you experience;

The sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin;

An intuitive understanding of something;