Glossary F

Feeling refers to a function of personality in which individuals attend to subjective experiences of pleasure, pain, anger, or other feelings. Its polar opposite is thinking.

Feeling of knowing refers to a feeling that allows people to predict beforehand whether they will be able to remember something.

Feelings is defined as the basic elements of emotion that accompany each sensation. Wundt believed that emotions consist of various combinations of elemental feelings. ( Please see also Tridimensional theory of feeling. ) Feelings include emotions such as happiness, satisfaction, pleasure, anger, and irritation.

Feelings of inferiority is a term which according to Adler are those feelings that all humans try to escape by becoming powerful or superior.

Feisty may be defined as: (1) Spirited; full of courage, spunk, or energy. (2) Touchy, irritable, or ill-tempered.

Felicity conditions refers to a condition that must be present for a speech act to be understood as sincere or valid.
Fellatio refers to the act of sexually stimulating the penis or male genitals with the mouth; oral stimulation of the penis. Fellatio is popularly known as "Blow job".
Felony refers to a serious criminal offense; specifically one punishable by death or by incarceration in a prison facility for a year or more; a severe crime, subject to punishment of 1 year or more in prison or to capital punishment.