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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.
Informal, sometimes derogatory openly displaying one's emotions and affections.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
This term originated in the USA in the 1970s; for example, this piece by Nicholas Von Hoffman from The Charleston Gazette, March 1972: “He [Walter Mondale] has something of the high school teacher in his manner not that he’s stiff but he doesn’t do that touchy-feely-stand-close kind of thing that marks an American politician when he’s trying to do something special for you.”
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.
TOUCHY-FEELY meaning: 1. kind and loving, especially by touching and holding people more than is usual, often in a way…. Learn more.
Touchy-feely definition: emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality. See examples of TOUCHY-FEELY used in a sentence.
Touchy-feely definition: Marked by or emphasizing physical closeness and emotional openness.