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Caring vs Maternalism - What's the difference?

caring | maternalism |

As nouns the difference between caring and maternalism

is that caring is the act of one who cares while maternalism is the treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.

As an adjective caring

is kind, sensitive, empathetic.

As a verb caring

is present participle of lang=en.

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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    maternalism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the treatment of people in a motherly manner, especially by caring for them as a mother would care for her children.

    • Synonyms

    * motherliness English words suffixed with -ism