feeling vs idea

feeling

noun
  • Emotion; impression. 

  • An opinion, an attitude. 

  • Emotional state or well-being. 

  • Sensation, particularly through the skin. 

  • Emotional attraction or desire. 

  • Intuition. 

adj
  • Emotionally sensitive. 

  • Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility. 

idea

noun
  • A vague or fanciful notion; a feeling or hunch; an impression. 

  • An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples. 

  • A conception in the mind of something to be done; a plan for doing something, an intention. 

  • A purposeful aim or goal; intent 

  • A musical theme or melodic subject. 

  • More generally, any result of mental activity; a thought, a notion; a way of thinking. 

  • An image of an object that is formed in the mind or recalled by the memory. 

How often have the words feeling and idea occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )