Pocit

Pocit is a Czech noun meaning a subjective experience of bodily sensations or emotional states, as well as a perceptual impression. It can refer to tangible feelings such as pain, cold, warmth, as well as mood or instinctive impressions, for example "můj pocit je, že se něco nepovede" or "pocit chladu." In everyday language, pocit is used to express personal perception and intuition, and can be contrasted with more objective terms such as "příznak" (symptom) in medical contexts.

Compared with the related noun cit, pocit emphasizes immediacy and personal, experiential aspects, while cit often denotes a broader moral, aesthetic, or social sense.

It is historically linked to the verb cítit (to feel) and the related form pociťovat (to sense or perceive).

In literature and philosophy, pocit is used to denote subjective experience that shapes perception, mood, or tone, and appears in expressions describing emotional climate, such as "pocit ticha" or "pocit něhy."