Feeling vs. Opinion — What's the Difference?

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.

An opinion is a judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive, rather than facts, which are true statements.

An emotional state or reaction

A belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof

An idea or belief, especially a vague or irrational one

A judgment based on special knowledge and given by an expert

The capacity to experience the sense of touch

A judgment or estimation of the merit of a person or thing

A sensitivity to or intuitive understanding of

The prevailing view

Showing emotion or sensitivity

A court's formal, usually written statement explaining its reasons for its decision in a case.

The sense of touch

An attorney's formal, usually written statement giving an assessment of how the law should be or is likely to be applied in a particular situation.

A sensation experienced through this sense

A piece of testimony that is not usually admissible when given by a layperson, as in contrast to an opinion given by an expert witness.

A physical sensation other than one experienced though touch

A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

An emotion, such as joy or sorrow

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

Strong mental agitation or excitement involving the emotions

(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

An emotion of affection; a fondness

(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

The capacity to experience refined emotions; sensitivity; sensibility

The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

Feelings Susceptibility to emotional response; sensibilities

(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

An awareness or impression

To have or express as an opinion.

An opinion based strongly on emotion; sentiment

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action.

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

The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

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

Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

Appreciative regard or understanding

Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

Intuitive awareness or aptitude; a feel

The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

Easily moved emotionally; sympathetic

To opine.

Expressive of sensibility or emotion

A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty;

Emotionally sensitive.

A belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people;

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

A message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof;

Sensation, particularly through the skin.

The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision;

Emotion; impression.

The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

Emotional state or well-being.

A vague idea in which some confidence is placed;

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;