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Protective vs Caring - What's the difference?

protective | caring |

As adjectives the difference between protective and caring

is that protective is serving, intended or wishing to protect while caring is (of a person) kind, sensitive, empathetic.

As nouns the difference between protective and caring

is that protective is (british) something that protects while caring is the act of one who cares.

As a verb caring is

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protective

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Serving, intended or wishing to protect.

    • Derived terms

    * protective custody

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) Something that protects.
  • A condom.

    • 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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