(Here's your sign language answer, Jackie):

In American Sign Language, there is a specific morpheme (the middle finger on the dominant hand) that carries with it the connotation of physical feeling. The signs TOUCH, SICK, NAKED, and CONTACT all use this morpheme in the sign production to indicate the physicality of the "feeling."

Often, emotionally connotative words are signed with this same morpheme, but the morpheme is used figuratively to indicate it is not the literal or physical sensation. When one emotionally FEELS, the sign strokes the heart/chest with this finger. to sign SAD, one carries these fingers down from the face.

The end result is that, in American Sign Language, one can identify what kind of "feeling" is happening by the way the feeling morpheme is used.

(satiating, Jackie? BTW, long overdue GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN!)

Brandon