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Helping vs Caring - What's the difference?

helping | caring |

As nouns the difference between helping and caring

is that helping is a portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself while caring is the act of one who cares.

As verbs the difference between helping and caring

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

As an adjective caring is

kind, sensitive, empathetic.

helping

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself;
    • She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.
  • (figurative, countable) An amount or quantity
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 19 , author=Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Ukraine , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Wayne Rooney marked his England return with the goal that secured a place in Euro 2012's last eight - but it was a rough passage eased by helpings of good fortune and controversy against Ukraine.}}

    Related terms

    * help oneself

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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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