outfeel

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ feel.

Verb

outfeel (third-person singular simple present outfeels, present participle outfeeling, simple past and past participle outfelt)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• feel out, outflee