• Touching

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ÊŒtʃɪŋ

    Verb

    touching
    1. Present participle of touch

    Full definition of touching

    Adjective

    touching

    1. Provoking sadness and pity.a touching story

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    Noun

    touching

    (plural touchings)
    1. 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.

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