What is the difference between an emotion and a feeling?

Answer 1

As one answerer said, emotion is in the heart, feeling is in the brain. Firstly the heart is a beating muscle and the brain is the only thing that brings about any kind of feelings...so emotion and feeling is in the brain. I think there could be a difference but only in the fact for example if we sustain a deep wound. We feel pain, its the same pain, but the emotion it creates can be totally different for everyone. The emotion could be one of hysterical crying and feeling like you are going to die. Or for someone else it could be a feeling of exhilaration because pain sets off some kind of "good" feeling in their brain. So the feeling is the same for everyone, but its how we interpret that pain in our brain as to the type of emotion we will feel. We feel love, yet emotions such as jealousy, insecurity, etc could very well accompany that feeling of love. In short I believe emotion is the way we interpret the same kind of stimuli (feeling) to mean a lot of different things for different people.

Answer 2

A feeling can be a physical thing - like feeling cold or the pain from clunking one's head.

Some people use the term, "feeling", in a more casual way when they say, for example, "I had a feeling it was going to rain." They're describing some unexplained sense they had that it would rain.

Emotion is the word used to describe a set of physiological and mental states that result from internal and external environments. (For example, too many worries cause stress, which can cause unhappiness; or PMS and its moods are the result of internal environment changes.)

Emotion is also the response to one's external (usually) and/or internal environments and results in changes in "brain chemicals", which, in turn, alter the state of both the mind and the body. The result of having an emotion is that the person will either then interpret his mental state as one of the emotions above (grief, happiness, sadness, etc.) or else may interpret thoses as their "feelings".

Answer 3

Synonyms: feeling, emotion, passion, sentiment
These nouns refer to complex and usually strong subjective human response. Although feeling and emotion are sometimes interchangeable, feeling is the more general and neutral: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" William Wordsworth.
Emotion often implies the presence of excitement or agitation: "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion" T.S. Eliot.
Passion is intense, compelling emotion: "They seemed like ungoverned children inflamed with the fiercest passions of men" Francis Parkman.
Sentiment often applies to a thought or opinion arising from or influenced by emotion: We expressed our sentiments about the government's policies.
The word can also refer to delicate, sensitive, or higher or more refined feelings: "The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people" Walter Bagehot. See Also Synonyms at opinion.

Answer 4

This is a very interesting question. The dictionary says that emotion is feelings of joy, hate, sorrow, love, fear, etc.; while feeling is a sense of touch, sensation, emotion, opinion, awareness, perception. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

A feeling or an emotion is something that exists within the body, they are both the same.

Answer 6

you are born with emotions, you learn feelings as you go through life

Answer 7

emotion is in the mind(heart)
feelimg is in the brain

Answer 8

look in the dictionary...u'd be surprised how much it can tell u :D :P