feeling vs thing

feeling and thing both are nouns.

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

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

feeling (noun)	thing (noun)
the experiencing of affective and emotional states	a separate and self-contained entity
an intuitive understanding of something	an action
a physical sensation that you experience	an artifact
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin	an entity that is not named specifically
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed	any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people	a special abstraction
	a special objective
	a vaguely specified concern
	a statement regarded as an object
	an event
	a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
	a special situation