feeling tone

noun

1

a

: feeling sense 7c

b

: a particular quality of one's awareness measured in terms of pleasantness and unpleasantness

2

a

: the overall quality of an experience especially as attributed to the thing experienced

a second translation which I think reproduces the feeling tone of the original

—Ernest Beaglehole

b

: one of the emotional shades of an experience especially as attributed to the thing experienced

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