caring

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

   caring friends

2. 2
   adj

   Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

   She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   a loving feeling

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of care

Etymology

From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.