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Devoted vs Caring - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between devoted and caring

is that devoted is vowed; dedicated; consecrated while caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic.

As verbs the difference between devoted and caring

is that devoted is past tense of devote while caring is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun caring is

the act of one who cares.

devoted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
  • Zealous; characterized by devotion.
  • (obsolete) cursed; doomed.

    • Derived terms

    * devotedly * devotedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • (devote)

    • 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 .

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