to sense · perception · to feel (through the senses) · to experience · a feeling · an impression · an experience

Tom can't tell Mary his real feelings.

I'm feeling the breath of life.

I want people to appreciate the beauty of my native language, and I want to experience how beautiful other languages can be, too.

That's exactly how I feel.

Instead, they detect sounds through their tongues and feel vibrations through sense organs in the skull.