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   What does touchy feely mean?

   • If you describe something as touchy-feely, you mean that it involves people expressing emotions such as love and affection openly in a way which you find embarrassing and silly. ...a touchy-feely song about making your life worth living. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collins English Dictionary.

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   What does touchy-feely mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! TOUCHY-FEELY definition: 1. kind and loving, especially by touching and holding people more than is usual, often in a way…. Learn more.

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   Where did the term 'touchy-feely' originate?

   • The term 'touchy-feely' originated in the 1960s. The earliest known use of the adjective is in the New York Times from 1968. The word is formed within English by derivation, with etymons being 'touch' verb and '-y suffix, as well as 'feel' verb, tough, and noun.

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   What does 'touchy-feely' refer to?

   • Touchy-feely refers to information that is too personal, sensitive, reflective, or sentimental, often with negative connotations. I quit hanging out with Sharon after her near death experience because everything she said was too touchy-feely. Urban Dictionary.

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   Is nursing touchy-feely?

   • Nursing is touchy-feely, and America is squeamish about anything touchy-feely outside of sex and art. It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk. And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics?

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   Is touchy-feely a good discipline?

   • Namely, it is believed that the "touchy-feely" nature of the discipline does not allow for reliable, acceptable knowledge expressed by any one person. That is a triumph of emotion over reason, the triumph of the current, hopefully ephemeral, touchy-feely syndrome over calm, measured objectivity.

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   TOUCHY-FEELY definition: 1. kind and loving, especially by touching and holding people more than is usual, often in a way…. Learn more.

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     TOUCHY-FEELY meaning: 1. kind and loving, especially by...

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     TOUCHY-FEELY definicja: 1. kind and loving, especially by...

   • Touchy-Feely in Simplified Chinese

     TOUCHY-FEELY translate: （尤指通过过分接触搂抱）露骨表达感情的. Learn more in...

   • Touchy-Feely in Traditional Chinese

     TOUCHY-FEELY translate: （尤指透過過分接觸摟抱）露骨表達感情的. Learn more in...

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   Informal, sometimes derogatory openly displaying one's emotions and affections.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

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   The meaning of TOUCHY-FEELY is characterized by or encouraging interpersonal touching especially in the free expression of emotions; also : openly or excessively emotional and personal.

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   Touchy-feely definition: emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality. See examples of TOUCHY-FEELY used in a sentence.

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   Definition of touchy-feely adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   6 days ago · (often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact)

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   What does the adjective touchy-feely mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective touchy-feely . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.