Feeling and Leaning

Feeling

Feeling noun - A subjective response to a person, thing, or situation.

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Leaning and feeling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Leaning" instead a noun "Feeling".

Nearby Words: feel, feelingly, feeler, feeing

Leaning noun - A prevailing or general movement or inclination.

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Feeling and leaning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Feeling" instead a noun "Leaning".

Nearby Words: lean, leaned, leant

particular	particular feeling	particular leaning
public	public feeling	public leaning
strong	strong feeling	strong leaning
definite	definite feeling	definite leaning
Other adjectives: massive, little, subtle, happy, personal, extra, mixed, left, realistic, creepy.

Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the end, Nyx complains of feeling like someone else took over her story.

Source: Fan Fic / Reality Checks Nyxverse
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Jaune sometimes gets the feeling like hes seeing his body through a screen of some kind.

Source: Fanfic / Ryuugi's The Games We Play
On the other hand, it had a real tightrope to walk between leaning too hard on Bruce's past and classic villains and introducing new characters and conflicts that had a bad habit of feeling a little... high school.

Source: Contested Sequel

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