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Caring vs Gracious - What's the difference?

caring | gracious |

As adjectives the difference between caring and gracious

is that caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic while gracious is kind and warmly courteous.

As a verb caring

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun caring

is the act of one who cares.

As an interjection gracious is

expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.

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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    gracious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gratious (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • kind and warmly courteous
  • tactful
  • compassionate
  • indulgent, charming and graceful
  • elegant and with good taste
  • benignant
  • Derived terms

    * graciousness * graciously

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, frustration.