feeling vs tone

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. 

tone

noun
  • The general character, atmosphere, mood, or vibe (of a situation, place, etc.). 

  • The quality of being respectable or admirable. 

  • The pitch of a word that distinguishes a difference in meaning, for example in Chinese. 

  • The manner in which speech or writing is expressed. 

  • The character of a sound, especially the timbre of an instrument or voice. 

  • A specific pitch. 

  • (in a Gregorian chant) A recitational melody. 

  • The state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor. 

  • a gun 

  • The shade or quality of a colour. 

  • The favourable effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, or of colours. 

  • The definition and firmness of a muscle or organ; see also: tonus. 

  • (in the diatonic scale) An interval of a major second. 

  • Normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli. 

verb
  • to change the colour of 

  • to give a particular tone to 

  • to utter with an affected tone. 

  • to make (something) firmer 

pron
  • the one (of two) 

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