Responsive vs Caring - What's the difference?
responsive | caring |
Answering, replying or responding.
Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
Using antiphons; antiphonal.
Susceptible to the feelings of others.
(obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) responsible
(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 responsive and caring
is that responsive is answering, replying or responding 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.responsive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The vocal lay responsive to the strings.
- (Jeremy Taylor)
Antonyms
* nonresponsive * unresponsiveDerived terms
* responsively * responsiveness * responsorial ----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 .