touchy-feely

[tuhch-ee-fee-lee]

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adjective

Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.

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Related Words for touchy-feely

emotional, expressive, sensitive, tactile, tactual, gushing

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Contemporary Examples of touchy-feely

And so every presidential campaign of the television age has pushed the touchy-feely button.
Michael Tomasky on How Tricky Mitt Romney Is Aping Richard Nixon
Michael Tomasky
August 28, 2012
Nursing is touchy-feely, and America is squeamish about anything touchy-feely outside of sex and art.
The Bogus Breastfeeding Debate Over Nursing Older Kids
Diane Wiessinger
May 22, 2012
It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk.
Michael Tomasky: With Joe Biden’s Speech, The Democrats Finally Man Up
Michael Tomasky
April 28, 2012
We are uncomfortable having the “touchy-feely” conversations with our buddies about sadness and guilt and stress.
The Killing of a Park Ranger on Mount Rainier Reminds Us to Help Returning Soldiers
Benjamin Tupper
January 3, 2012

British Dictionary definitions for touchy-feely

touchy-feely

adjective

informal, sometimes derogatory openly displaying one's emotions and affections

Derived Formstouchy-feeliness, noun

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