outfeel

verb

outfeel

verb

Etymology From out- + feel.

1

To feel more accurately or more acutely than.

  • Machines can outfeel a Helen Keller, out-taste and out-smell the best wine and perfume testers; they can discern pitch more unerringly than Stokowsky, and finer color hues than Rafael.1954, Rosicrucian Digest, page 309:
  • Touchy-feely freakishness. "Navel watching and solipsism." And a clumsy one-upmanship in which each sympathiser attempts to prove that "I can outfeel any person in this movement." Whoever sobs longest and loudest to a Mozart quintet, it sometimes seems, gains the presidency of the Humanistic Society.1988, Jock Abra, Assaulting Parnassus: theoretical views of creativity, page 432:

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