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feeling tone

noun

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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