Manly vs Caring - What's the difference?
manly | caring |
Having the characteristics of a man.
Having qualities befitting a man; courageous, resolute, noble.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
* 2001 , Thomas W. Smith, Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy (page 86)
(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 manly and caring
is that manly is having the characteristics of a man while caring is (of a person) kind, sensitive, empathetic.As a verb caring is
.As a noun caring is
the act of one who cares.manly
English
Adjective
(er)- Let's briefly put on manly readiness.
- Serene and manly , hardened to sustain / The load of life.
- Without a successful defense of one's city, none of the other virtues would be possible; manly courage seems to be a precondition for anything else worth achieving in life.
Derived terms
* manlinessAntonyms
* womanlycaring
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 .