feel the need
Definition of feel the need
: to have a strong feeling that one must have or do something I felt a need to take control of the situation. I feel the need to try again. drivers who feel the need for speed
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: to handle or touch in order to examine, test, or explore some quality
: to perceive by a physical sensation coming from discrete end organs (as of the skin or muscles)
: to undergo passive experience of
: sensation, feeling
: the sense of touch
: the quality of a thing as imparted through or as if through touch
: necessary duty : obligation
: a lack of something requisite, desirable, or useful
: a physiological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism
: to be needful or necessary
: to be in want
: to be in need of : require
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