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Touching vs Contingence - What's the difference?

touching | contingence |

As nouns the difference between touching and contingence

is that touching is the act by which something is touched while contingence is (geometry) contact; touching.

As a verb touching

is .

As an adjective touching

is provoking sadness and pity.

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.

    Anagrams

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    contingence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geometry) Contact; touching.
  • Contingency.

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