Touching vs Impressive - What's the difference?
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The act by which something is touched.
* 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
Capable of being impressed.
appealing
As adjectives the difference between touching and impressive
is that touching is provoking sadness and pity while impressive is making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.As a verb touching
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun touching
is the act by which something is touched.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.