Érzés

Érzés is a Hungarian noun meaning a subjective feeling or sensation. It encompasses both physical experiences, such as warmth, pain, or fatigue, and affective states, such as happiness, anxiety, or sadness. In everyday language it refers to how something is felt from the inside, and in scientific or philosophical contexts it is used to describe the subjective aspect of experience.

The word is formed from the verb érez, “to feel,” with the suffix -és, which creates a noun expressing a state or quality. In usage, érzetek and érzések are related terms, but they carry somewhat different nuances. Érzés is the broad felt experience; érzelem typically denotes a mood or longer-lasting emotional state; érzet can refer to a concrete perceptual impression or sensation. Érzékelés refers to perception or the cognitive processing of sensory input.

Common uses include phrases like “jó érzet” (a good feeling) or “rossz érzet” (a bad feeling), and in medical or psychological contexts one may speak of physical érzetek (sensations) or disturbed érzetek in certain conditions. The term is flexible across registers, from casual speech to clinical description, and it often functions as a bridge between bodily sensations and subjective experience.

See also: érzelem, érzet, érzékelés.