Feeling and Motive

Feeling

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

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

Nearby Words: feel, feelingly, feeler, feeing

Motive noun - A major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition).

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Feeling and motive are semantically related in reason topic. Sometimes you can use "Feeling" instead a noun "Motive".

good	good feeling	good motive
clear	clear feeling	clear motive
special	special feeling	special motive
particular	particular feeling	particular motive
Other adjectives: better, similar, true, simple, strong, real, little, bad, dark, sexual, personal, new, different, overall.

While the motive is genuine, the very first day of acting she's already feeling awkward and begins to treat it more and more as though they were really going out.

Source: The Beard
Like Hol Horse he starts out under the villain's command but seeing no motive to help him and feeling more entitled to Dio's legacy due to being his son Versace tries to hijack his plan.

Source: Big Bad Wannabe
Sympathy for the Devil: Taishi admits to feeling sorry for Ghouls, after hearing Lantern's Motive Rant.

Source: Manga / Tokyo Ghoul

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