touchy-feely

[ tuhch-ee-fee-lee ]

adjective

1. Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality:

   a touchy-feely encounter group.

touchy-feely

/ ˈtʌtʃɪˈfiːlɪ /

adjective

1. informal.
   openly displaying one's emotions and affections

Derived Forms

• ˈtouchy-ˈfeeliness, noun

Example Sentences

And so every presidential campaign of the television age has pushed the touchy-feely button.

From The Daily Beast

Nursing is touchy-feely, and America is squeamish about anything touchy-feely outside of sex and art.

From The Daily Beast

It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk.

From The Daily Beast

And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics?

From The Daily Beast

We are uncomfortable having the “touchy-feely” conversations with our buddies about sadness and guilt and stress.

From The Daily Beast