Definition of feeling tone
1a
: feeling sense 7c
b
: a particular quality of one's awareness measured in terms of pleasantness and unpleasantness
2a
: the overall quality of an experience especially as attributed to the thing experienced
a second translation which I think reproduces the feeling tone of the original— Ernest Beaglehole
b
: one of the emotional shades of an experience especially as attributed to the thing experienced
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feel/look like something the cat brought/dragged/drug in
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“Feeling tone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feeling%20tone. Accessed 22 Apr. 2021.
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