Touching
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌtʃɪŋ
Verb
touching- Present participle of touch
Noun
touching
(plural touchings)- 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.