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Caring vs Selfless - What's the difference?

caring | selfless |

As adjectives the difference between caring and selfless

is that caring is kind, sensitive, empathetic while selfless is having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.

As a verb caring

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun caring

is the act of one who cares.

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 .

    Anagrams

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    selfless

    English

    (wikipedia selfless)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.
    • In a selfless act of gratitude for saving his mother's life, Peter committed to giving money to his local breast cancer charity each year for the rest of his life.

    Derived terms

    * selflessness