touchy-feely
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.50 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
Informal
adj
Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "My last boyfriend was a lovely guy, but I dumped him because he was too touchy-feely with me in public."
- "Kühnel’s wife, Berta, began by asking everyone to join hands. […] When I asked her later what she made of the exercise, Hellar told me: “First of all, I’m not a good-feelings, touchy-feely kind of person.”"
- "This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist."
- "He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others."
- "I think the movie had too much touchy-feely nonsense and not enough action."
- "Why is it that, when straight men are touched, it is an affront worthy of outrage and police investigation, yet a woman's being the subject of a bar-wide game of touchy-feely is par for the course?"
Usage
Inflected Forms
more touchy-feely (comparative)
most touchy-feely (superlative)