Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for feeling

Synonyms for feeling: opinion and touch. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for feeling

opinionnoun, in the sense "a vague idea in which some confidence is placed"
touchnoun, in the sense "the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin"

Two senses of feeling, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

I had a feeling that she was lying.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

opinion

Same sentence, swapped: I had a opinion that she was lying.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

touch
smell
plan

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

The surface had a greasy feeling.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

touch

Same sentence, swapped: The surface had a greasy touch.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where feeling stands in the sentence above.

spirit
opinion
seeing

Where feeling turns up in the game

feeling is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play feeling

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so feeling reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

guessverbthinkexpect, believe, or supposeFoothillsHas a reason line headnounmindthat which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functionsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line hearingnounaudiencean opportunity to state your case and be heardFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line holdverbagreebe in accordFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line assaynouncheckan appraisal of the state of affairsHigh CampHas a reason line associationnounconnectionthe process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imaginationTreelineHas a reason line assumeverbtaketake on a certain form, attribute, or aspectFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line lateadjectiveformerof the immediate pastFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. feeling carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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