One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp
An insect's feelers are the two thin stalks on its head with which it touches and senses things around it. = antenna
sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations"
{i} person or thing who feels or senses (especially by touch); (Zoology) body organ used for touching or feeling (i.e. antennae, tentacle, etc.); hint, tentative proposal
one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e g insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances"
If you put out feelers, you make careful, quiet contacts with people in order to get information from them, or to find out what their reaction will be to a suggestion. When vacancies occur, the office puts out feelers to the universities
put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative