Touching vs Feeling - What's the difference?
touching | feeling |
The act by which something is touched.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
Emotionally sensitive.
Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
Sensation, particularly through the skin.
Emotion; impression.
Emotional state or well-being.
Emotional attraction or desire.
Intuition.
* 1987 ,
An opinion, an attitude.
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As verbs the difference between touching and feeling
is that touching is while feeling is .As adjectives the difference between touching and feeling
is that touching is provoking sadness and pity while feeling is emotionally sensitive.As nouns the difference between touching and feeling
is that touching is the act by which something is touched while feeling is sensation, particularly through the skin.touching
English
Verb
(head)Synonyms
* emotional, moving, sadNoun
(en noun)- 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
*feeling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Despite the rough voice, the coach is surprisingly feeling .
- He made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
Noun
(en noun)- The wool on my arm produced a strange feeling .
- The house gave me a feeling of dread.
- You really hurt my feelings when you said that.
- Many people still have feelings for their first love.
- He has no feeling for what he can say to somebody in such a fragile emotional condition.
- Got on a lucky one
- Came in eighteen to one
- I've got a feeling
- This year's for me and you
- I've got a funny feeling that this isn't going to work.