feelie
/ˈfiːli/
feelie noun: a proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
Noun
feelie (plural feelies)
- A proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
- Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus
- One of our brighter young Utopians, Aldous Huxley, predicts that the movies of the future will include “feelies” and “smellies.”1941, Arthur Kissam Train, The Story of Everyday Things, Harper & Brothers, page 390
- An additional physical item packaged with a game (usually interactive fiction) to immerse the player in the game world and provide hints to solving the game.
- The company also gained fame for its inclusion of “feelies,” small tangible items directly related to the game. The feelies for Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984), for example, included papers representing “Destruction Orders for Your Home and Planet,” an empty bag representing...2017, Andrew Williams, History of Digital Games: Developments in Art, Design and Interaction, CRC Press, →ISBN
Examples of feelie in a sentence
- TikTok’s endless talent show is so captivating that members of the intelligence community fear China could use the platform to spy on Americans or to disseminate propaganda—feelies as a weapon of war.2023 January 30, Megan Garber, “We’ve Lost the Plot”, in The Atlantic:
- The company also gained fame for its inclusion of “feelies,” small tangible items directly related to the game.2017, Andrew Williams, History of Digital Games: Developments in Art, Design and Interaction, CRC Press, →ISBN:
Forms of feelie
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Origin of feelie
From feel + -ie. In the video game sense, introduced by the game publisher Infocom in the 1980s.
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Words that rhyme with feelie
Questions about feelie
- What does feelie mean?
- Feelie means a proposed future entertainment, akin to a film/movie, where the audience can physically feel what happens to the characters.
- How do you use feelie in a sentence?
- TikTok’s endless talent show is so captivating that members of the intelligence community fear China could use the platform to spy on Americans or to disseminate propaganda—feelies as a weapon of war.
- What part of speech is feelie?
- Feelie is a noun.
- How do you pronounce feelie?
- Feelie is pronounced /ˈfiːli/.
- What is the plural of feelie?
- The plural of feelie is feelies.
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