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Touchable vs Touching - What's the difference?

touchable | touching |

As adjectives the difference between touchable and touching

is that touchable is capable of being touched; tangible or palpable while touching is provoking sadness and pity.

As a verb touching is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun touching is

the act by which something is touched.

touchable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being touched; tangible or palpable.

    • 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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