Array of Ati

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Characterized as experiencing. Feeling is generally classified as pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral, but it can also be classified in six according to the faculty that it arises in dependence upon: there are feelings that arise from contact assembled by eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.

In English, the word feeling can generally refer to a large range of different emotions. In Buddhist scriptures, it is limited specifically to feelings of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.

Feeling is the second of the five aggregates and the seventh of the twelve links of interdependence. DKC