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Caring vs Sensitive - What's the difference?

caring | sensitive |

Sensitive is a synonym of caring.



As adjectives the difference between caring and sensitive

is that caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic while sensitive is having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.

As nouns the difference between caring and sensitive

is that caring is the act of one who cares while sensitive is one with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

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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    sensitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
  • *, III.1.2.i:
    • The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.
  • Responsive to stimuli.
  • Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
    • Max is very sensitive ; he cried today because of the bad news.
  • Of an issue, capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
    • Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
  • Accurate (instrument).

    • Derived terms

    * sensitively * sensitiveness * sensitivity

    Related terms

    * sense

    Synonyms

    * tender * nesh * precise * compassionate * caring * aware

    Antonyms

    * insensitive * stoic * uncaring * resistant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
  • * 2003 , Frederic W.H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Part 2
    • Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.
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