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Touching vs Heartfelt - What's the difference?

touching | heartfelt |

As adjectives the difference between touching and heartfelt

is that touching is provoking sadness and pity while heartfelt is felt or believed deeply and sincerely.

As a verb touching

is .

As a noun touching

is the act by which something is touched.

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

    *

    heartfelt

    English

    Alternative forms

    * heart-felt

    Adjective

  • Felt or believed deeply and sincerely.
    • She expressed her heartfelt sympathies at the death of his mother.

    Synonyms

    * genuine, sincere, true

    Derived terms

    * heartfeltly * heartfeltness