what is the difference: 気持ち vs 気分 （kimochi vs

[hermes3g]

Hi! In Japanese language, we use much kimochi.
But there's also 'kibun' and I think it is a bit difficult to know the exact situations for each.
Can somebody help me to understand the difference?

[Javizy]

They have kind of a lot of uses, but I think generally 気持ち is 'feeling', both emotional/psychological and physical, whereas 気分 is 'mood', or a general way to refer to your state of mind.

そういう気持ち、よくわかるよ
I know the feeling.
飲みに行く気分じゃないんだけど
I'm not in the mood to go drinking.

I think some of the idiomatic usages are synonymous, and flicking through my idiom dictionary, it looks like a bit of a marathon explanation that is beyond me Maybe someone else can offer some more insight...

[watermen]

気持ち means feeling, and it means the feeling of that person.
I will use the example that Javizy gave,
そういう気持ち、よくわかるよ ==>I know that kind of feeling well...(in this case the person knows that feeling, the person feels it...it is emotional, it is about that person)


気分 means the feeling of the enviroment including the person involve, it is the atmosphere feeling as a whole.
飲みに行く気分じゃないんだけど I don't have the feeling to go drinking (in this sentence there is a feeling that the enviroment/surrounding has the feeling of not going to drink, therefore making him does not feel like drinking too).