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CARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loving feeling
Synonyms:
caring; lovingness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("caring" is a kind of...):
love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caring"):
warmheartedness; warmth (a warmhearted feeling)
Derivation:
care (feel concern or interest)
caring (feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
Example:
caring friends
Classified under:
Similar:
compassionate (showing or having compassion)
Derivation:
caring (a loving feeling)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb care
Context examples:
But she had an almost instant doubt of his caring for her as he had done, of his feeling the same tenderness in the same degree.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Be sure to follow the instructions on caring for your skin.
(Piercing and Tattoos, NIH)
“It is time to think of our visitors,” said Maria, still feeling her hand pressed to Henry Crawford's heart, and caring little for anything else.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
A nurse who specializes in treating and caring for people who have cancer.
(Oncology nurse, NCI Dictionary)
If you're caring for someone with mental problems like Alzheimer's disease it can be especially difficult.
(Caregivers, Dept. of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health)
He acquiescing, we followed at a distance: never losing sight of her, but never caring to come very near, as she frequently looked about.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
There was a fumbling and a scratching of matches, and the sea-lamp flared up, dim and smoky, and in its weird light bare-legged men moved about nursing their bruises and caring for their hurts.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was nothing more than that my father—they were just preparing to walk out, and he being hurried for time, and not caring to have it put off—made a point of her being denied.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He found too late, in short, that he had entangled himself; and that precisely as he became fully satisfied of his not caring for Louisa at all, he must regard himself as bound to her, if her sentiments for him were what the Harvilles supposed.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I understood that, sitting there where I did, on the bank of heath, and with that handsome form before me, I sat at the feet of a man, caring as I. The veil fell from his hardness and despotism.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
