feeling vs mood

mood vs feeling

feeling and mood both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
feeling	Yes	No	No	No
mood	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mood is a hyponym of feeling; that is, mood is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than feeling:

feeling: the experiencing of affective and emotional states
mood: a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling

Other hyponyms of feeling include affect, emotion, thing, glow, faintness, soul, soulfulness, passion, passionateness, sentiment, complex, ambivalence, ambivalency, apathy, desire, sex, sexual urge, pleasance, pleasure, pain, painfulness, pang, stab, twinge, liking, dislike, gratitude, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unconcern, shame, pride, pridefulness, humbleness, humility, amazement, astonishment, devastation, expectation, levity, gravity, solemnity, sensitiveness, sensitivity, agitation, calmness, bravery, fearlessness, happiness, sadness, unhappiness, hope, despair, affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, humor, humour, temper, fellow feeling, sympathy, enthusiasm, anchorage, disinterest.

feeling (noun)	mood (noun)
the experiencing of affective and emotional states	a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
an intuitive understanding of something	verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
a physical sensation that you experience	the prevailing psychological state
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

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