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Moving vs Touching - What's the difference?

moving | touching | Synonyms |

Touching is a synonym of moving.



As adjectives the difference between moving and touching

is that moving is (no comparative or superlative) That moves or move while touching is provoking sadness and pity.

As verbs the difference between moving and touching

is that moving is present participle of lang=en while touching is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between moving and touching

is that moving is the relocation of goods while touching is the act by which something is touched.

moving

English

(wikipedia moving)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (no comparative or superlative ) That moves or move.
    • moving pictures
  • That causes someone to feel emotion.
  • * Coleridge
    • I sang an old moving story.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The relocation of goods
  • (countable) A causing of a movement
    • The rats' movings are willed movements.

    touching

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Provoking sadness and pity.
    • a touching story

    Synonyms

    * emotional, moving, sad

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is touched.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
    • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings , and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

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