How do you describe a feeling with comparing it to anything?

I think you can just describe the physical element -- "my heart beat faster, I felt blood rushing to my face," etc.

It was a new and exciting feeling, never experienced before.

A potential problem with basal properties or elements is just that: They seem to lack any further empirical structure that one could describe or reference. Color in general may have principles like saturation, hue, and value; but a primary building block like a pixel of red may invite nothing more than its identifying label. Emotions may not be basal, however; an emotion actually seems more like a bundle of thoughts, behaviors, and stances that are summed-up or classed as states of happiness, sadness, anger, etc. So further descriptive analysis within the state itself might be possible (not needing analogies to conditions outside it).

This topic leaves me cold!

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