outfeel
English
Verb
outfeel (third-person singular simple present outfeels, present participle outfeeling, simple past and past participle outfelt)
- (transitive) To feel more accurately or more acutely than.
- 1954, Rosicrucian Digest (page 309)
- 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.
- 1988, Jock Abra, Assaulting Parnassus: theoretical views of creativity (page 432)
- 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.
- 1954, Rosicrucian Digest (page 309)
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