Insensitive vs Caring - What's the difference?
insensitive | caring |
Not expressing normal physical feeling
* 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula
Not expressing normal emotional feelings; cold; tactless; undiplomatic
* 1895, Grant Allen, The British Barbarians
* 1994, Jann Arden, "Insensitive" (song)
(of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
The act of one who cares.
* 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
As adjectives the difference between insensitive and caring
is that insensitive is not expressing normal physical feeling while caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic.As a verb caring is
present participle of lang=en.As a noun caring is
the act of one who cares.insensitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact.
- Somehow, when Bertram Ingledew let it once be felt he did not wish to be questioned on any particular point, even women managed to restrain their curiosity: and he would have been either a very bold or a very insensitive man who would have ventured to continue questioning him any further.
- Oh I really should have known by the time you drove me home, / By the vagueness in your eyes, your casual good-byes, / By the chill in your embrace and the expression on your face, / That told me you might have some advice to give / On how to be insensitive .
Synonyms
* unaffectedAntonyms
* sensitivecaring
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
