touching

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌtʃɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌtʃɪŋ
• Hyphenation: touch‧ing

From Middle English touchynge, equivalent to touch +‎ -ing.

touching

1. present participle of touch

touching (comparative more touching, superlative most touching)

1. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.

   a touching story

• emotional, moving, sad

touching

1. (archaic) Regarding; concerning.
   • Bible, 1 Corinthians 8:1

     Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge.

• about, apropos, as for; See also Thesaurus:about

From Middle English touching, touchinge, touchynge, equivalent to touch +‎ -ing.

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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