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Caring vs Benevolent - What's the difference?

caring | benevolent |

As adjectives the difference between caring and benevolent

is that caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic while benevolent is having a disposition to do good.

As a verb caring

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun caring

is the act of one who cares.

caring

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
  • She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who cares.
  • * 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
  • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings .

    Anagrams

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    benevolent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a disposition to do good.
  • Chinese and Eastern mythologies describe dragons as benevolent .
  • Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
  • altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
  • generous.
  • Antonyms

    * malevolent

    See also

    * benevolence * benevolently * benevolentness