far-feeling
/ˈfɑːfiːlɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But really one could not at the time resist the impression that the writers were amusing themselves at the expense of their readers, in gravely informing them that a brain could act telepathically an hour after the man was dead. Surely this was pushing the far-feeling theory a little too far."
- "With many it denotes a process of such far-feeling as is not caused in the natural way and as stands in contradiction to the mechanical interconnection of causes and effects in the universe."
- "I frankly find it inconceivable that at any period of man's history, this faculty of far-feeling, this cognisance of distant minds, should have been developed by the actual need and stress of earthly existence."
- "Farther-feeling as distinct from far-feeling, i.e., from a distance instead of from the sitter."