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Touching vs Impressive - What's the difference?

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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)
  • 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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    impressive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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
  • Antonyms

    * unimpressive

    Derived terms

    * impressiveness

    Anagrams

    * permissive