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- noun Plural form of
feelie .
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Examples
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In "Brave New World" citizens clamor for "feelies" - interactive pornography that Huxley, writing in the early 1930s, saw as the logical extension of
The Daily Texan RSS 2008
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The latter idea was mooted fictionally in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel, "Brave New World," in which the "feelies" stimulated one's tactile and olfactory sense as well as sight and sound.
Boing Boing 2007
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While porn would be the early adapter of "feelies", they would change the way all movies are made and presented.
The Future of Sex Stephen D. Covey 2008
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Infocom used to give out "feelies" with its early text adventures, such as honest-to-god replica zorkmids or cloth maps or whatnot.
Archive 2006-09-01 Greg Tannahill 2006
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Infocom used to give out "feelies" with its early text adventures, such as honest-to-god replica zorkmids or cloth maps or whatnot.
Manual Handling Greg Tannahill 2006
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Couric is the quintessential "feelies" government moderator, dominator and broker agency, so perfect she would be to the role of a dictator's spokeswoman that she channels the benign malevolence of a happy-face button.
Home/News 2010
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This is exactly the kind of dictatorial (totalitarian when you consider the dominance of the network when 80-some million people are watching on the only station showing the game) communication Aldous Huxley called the "feelies" in Brave New World.
Home/News 2010
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Couric is the quintessential "feelies" government moderator, dominator and broker agency, so perfect she would be to the role of a dictator's spokeswoman that she channels the benign malevolence of a happy-face button.
Home/News 2010
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Cabat's rounded pots are sometimes called "feelies" because of the way the colorful glazes invite human touch.
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And yet, everyone must consume chemicals to stave off depression, children are born in laboratories and trained to embrace societies caste system, and movies have been replaced with "feelies," or movies that significantly stimulate the senses, and Henry Ford is revered as God.
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