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caring

adj
/ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/UK/ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *ǵeh₂r-✻ — “shout, call”
  2. inherited from *karō✻ — “care, sorrow, cry”
  3. inherited from *karu✻
  4. inherited from caru
  5. inherited from care
  6. suffixed as caring — “care + ing”

Definitions

  1. Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

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

  2. present participle and gerund of care

  3. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at caring. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at caring. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at caring

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA