All languages have a word for FEEL, undifferentiated between “bodily feelings” (sensations) and “cognitively based” feelings (“emotions”), and distinct from THINK.
Standardized
There is a word for FEELING (verb, adjective, or noun), undifferentiated between “bodily feelings” (sensations) and “cognitively based” feelings (“emotions”), and distinct from THINKING.
Keywords
sensation, emotion, cognition, word class
Domain
lexicon
Type
unconditional
Status
achronic
Quality
absolute
Basis
“working hypothesis … on evidence gleaned from both cross-linguistic and cross-cultural studies”
There is a very common pattern of polysemy linking FEEL with ‘liver’, ‘insides’, or ‘stomach’.