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Contact vs Skinship - What's the difference?

contact | skinship |

As nouns the difference between contact and skinship

is that contact is the act of touching physically; being in close association while skinship is bonding through physical contact.

As a verb contact

is to touch; to come into physical contact with.

contact

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • The establishment of communication (with).
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
  • A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  • Someone with whom one is in communication.
  • (label) A contact lens.
  • (label) A device designed for repetitive connections.
  • Contact juggling.
  • (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
    • (Raymond)

    Derived terms

    * body contact * contact hitter * contactable * eye contact * first contact * golden contact * point of contact / POC

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To touch; to come into physical contact with.
    • The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
  • To establish communication with something or someone
    • I am trying to contact my sister.

    skinship

    English

    (wikipedia skinship)

    Noun

    (-)
  • bonding through physical contact
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1994 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Nicole Landry Sault , title=Many Mirrors: Body Image and Social Relations , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Rutgers University Press , isbn=9780813520803 , page=311 , passage=In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and "skinship'." … A similar type of "' skinship " also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ... }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2015 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=LT Wolf , title=The World King , chapter= , url= , genre=fiction , publisher= , isbn=978-1-312-37454-6 , page= , passage= However, there were times that folks needed that skinship to feel hearten'd and Dan often felt when others had that need. }}

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    Usage notes

    This word is mainly in use in Japan and South Korea and is rarely or never used by native English speakers.