caressing
Meaning of caressing
adjective
- stroking gently or lovingly.
his caressing touch
a beautifully caressing tone
- touch or stroke gently or lovingly.
she caressed the girl's forehead
a gentle breeze caressed his skin
mid 17th century: from French caresser (verb), caresse (noun), from Italian carezza, based on Latin carus ‘dear’.
Information about caressing
- The plural form of caressing is: caressings.
- Languages in which caressing is used:
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Hyphenation of caressing
ca-ress-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- caressing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
caressing synonyms
Meaning caressive:
Meaning cuddling:
cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling
Meaning move one's hand with gentle pressure over (a surface), typically repeatedly; caress:
Meaning bring one's hand or another part of one's body into contact with:
Meaning stroke or caress lovingly or erotically:
Meaning touch something lightly and gently:
Meaning remove (a substance) from the surface of a liquid:
Meaning stroke or pat (an animal) affectionately:
Meaning touch quickly and gently with the flat of the hand:
Meaning rub or push against gently with the nose and mouth:
Meaning touch or caress with the lips as a sign of love, sexual desire, or greeting:
Meaning hold close in one's arms as a way of showing love or affection:
Meaning hold (someone) closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection:
Meaning squeeze (someone) tightly in one's arms, typically to express affection:
Words that rhyme with caressing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing
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