Meanings
comparative more caring · superlative most caring
- Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of care
plural carings
- The act of one who cares.
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.
1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivefeeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch zorgzaam
- zorgzaamkind, sensitive, empathetic
Esperanto zorgema
- zorgemakind, sensitive, empathetic
Finnish huolehtivainen
- huolehtivainenkind, sensitive, empathetic
French attentionné
- attentionnékind, sensitive, empathetic
German fürsorglich
- fürsorglichkind, sensitive, empathetic
Greek νοιάξιμο
- νοιάξιμο (noiáximo)Translations
Hungarian gondoskodó
- gondoskodókind, sensitive, empathetic
Latvian gādīgs, rūpīgs
- gādīgskind, sensitive, empathetic
- rūpīgskind, sensitive, empathetic
Māori tūpore
- tūporekind, sensitive, empathetic
Norwegian omsorgsfull
- omsorgsfullkind, sensitive, empathetic
Polish troskliwy
- troskliwykind, sensitive, empathetic
Russian забо́тливый
- забо́тливый (zabótlivyj)kind, sensitive, empathetic
Spanish cariñoso, cuidador
- cariñosokind, sensitive, empathetic
- cuidadorkind, sensitive, empathetic
Ukrainian турбо́тливий
- турбо́тливий (turbótlyvyj)kind, sensitive, empathetic
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
caring. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caring
“caring.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caring. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “caring,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caring.
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