Thursday, March 13, 2008

Can you experience a feeling you never had?

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 13 March 2008 by member desmond

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Words express human feelings. Jealousy, love, hate, anger, disappointment, sadness etc. When someone describes their feelings in words, the feeling is felt or understood based on one's own experience of the same feeling.

But, if someone came up with a new word to describe a feeling you never experienced in your life before, what does even a detailed description of it actually convey to you? Can we experience feelings we never felt before? Is the range of human feelings infinite?

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