caring

English

Etymology

From care +‎ -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

Adjective

caring (comparative more caring, superlative most caring)

1. (of a person) Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

   She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

Derived terms

• caringly
• caringness
• noncaring
• uncaring
• uncaringness

Translations

kind, sensitive, empathetic

Armenian: հոգատար (hy) (hogatar) Dutch: zorgzaam (nl) Erzya: дошуж (došuž) Esperanto: zorgema Finnish: huolehtivainen (fi) French: attentionné (fr) German: fürsorglich (de) Hungarian: gondoskodó (hu) Latvian: gādīgs, rūpīgs Maori: tūpore Norwegian: omsorgsfull (no) Polish: troskliwy (pl) Russian: забо́тливый (ru) (zabótlivyj) Spanish: cariñoso (es) Ukrainian: турбо́тливий (turbótlyvyj)

Verb

caring

1. present participle and gerund of care

Related terms

• caring profession

Noun

caring (plural carings)

1. The act of one who cares.
   • 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183:

     As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

Derived terms

• childcaring
• sandwich caring

Translations

Translations

Greek: νοιάξιμο (el) n (noiáximo)

Anagrams

• Crigan, Garčin, arcing, racing