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Caring vs Loving - What's the difference?

caring | loving |

As adjectives the difference between caring and loving

is that caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic while loving is expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.

As verbs the difference between caring and loving

is that caring is present participle of lang=en while loving is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between caring and loving

is that caring is the act of one who cares while loving is the action of the verb to love.

As a proper noun Loving is

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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)

    • Related terms

    * caring profession

    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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    loving

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The action of the verb to love .

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
    • his loving wife

    Synonyms

    * adoring * affectionate * See also

    Verb

    (head)