touchings
Brief tactile encounters
Touchings is the plural of touching, referring to instances of physical contact or, less commonly, moments of emotional affect.
In legal and formal contexts, touchings often appears in discussions of unwanted or inappropriate physical contact: The complaint alleged multiple touchings over several months.
The word carries a clinical or documentary tone, cataloging separate incidents rather than describing a continuous action.
Initial faint movements
- poignanciesKeenly felt emotional pains
- sentimentalitiesExcessive tender emotions
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- warmthHeat you feel
compassions · sympathies · empathies · resonances · connections · feelings · softenings · upliftings
People you know professionally
- brushingsActs of stroking clean
- grazesFeeds on growing plants
- strokesGentle touches, swimming styles
- patsLight hand touches
caresses · taps · fingerings · handlings · pressings · rubbings · skimmings · nudges
States of being beside
- abutmentsBridge end supports
- edgingsFinishing strips at borders
- skirtingsWall-floor junction trim
- vergesEdges or boundaries
margins · meetings · joinings · convergences · proximities · nearnesses · closeness · tangencies
stirrings
Initial faint movements
- poignanciesKeenly felt emotional pains
- sentimentalitiesExcessive tender emotions
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
warmth · compassions · sympathies · empathies · resonances · connections · feelings · softenings · upliftings · piercings
contacts
People you know professionally
pats · caresses · taps · fingerings · handlings · pressings · rubbings · skimmings · nudges · bumps
adjacencies
States of being beside
verges · margins · meetings · joinings · convergences · proximities · nearnesses · closeness · tangencies · interfacings
brushings
Acts of stroking clean
touchingsseparations
Acts of dividing apart
detachments · releases · disconnections · withdrawals · removals
touchingsseparations
Acts of dividing apart
divergences · retreats · spacings · intervals · partings
- touching upMaking minor improvements
- touching downMaking contact with surface
- no touchingProhibition on physical contact
- touching baseBrief informal contact
- touching grassReconnecting with physical reality
- touching woodLuck-preserving superstition