Relaxation vs Caring - What's the difference?
relaxation | caring |
The act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities.
A diminution of tone, tension, or firmness; specifically in pathology: a looseness; a diminution of the natural and healthy tone of parts.
Remission or abatement of rigor.
Remission of attention or application.
Unbending; recreation; a state or occupation intended to give mental or bodily relief after effort.
(physics) The transition of an atom or molecule from a higher energy level to a lower one.
(music) The release following musical tension.
(of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
The act of one who cares.
* 1988 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy (page 183)
As nouns the difference between relaxation and caring
is that relaxation is the act of relaxing or the state of being relaxed; the opposite of stress or tension; the aim of recreation and leisure activities while caring is the act of one who cares.As an adjective caring is
(of a person) kind, sensitive, empathetic.As a verb caring is
.relaxation
English
Noun
(en noun)- relaxation of the soft palate
- relaxation of efforts
Derived terms
* dielectric relaxation * letter of relaxationReferences
*caring
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 .