feeling vs reason

feeling

noun
  • An opinion, an attitude. 

  • Emotional state or well-being. 

  • Emotion; impression. 

  • Sensation, particularly through the skin. 

  • Emotional attraction or desire. 

  • Intuition. 

adj
  • Emotionally sensitive. 

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

reason

noun
  • An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation. 

  • That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause. 

  • A premise placed after its conclusion. 

  • A motive for an action or a determination. 

  • Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. 

verb
  • To support with reasons, as a request. 

  • To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss. 

  • To persuade by reasoning or argument. 

  • To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument. 

  • To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational 

  • To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons. 

  • To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue. 

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