Usually means: Emotionally expressive and physically affectionate.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word touchy-feely:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. touchy-feely: Merriam-Webster
  2. touchy-feely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. touchy-feely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. touchy-feely, touchy-feely: Collins English Dictionary
  5. touchy-feely: Vocabulary.com
  6. Touchy-Feely, Touchy-feely, touchy-feely: Wordnik
  7. touchy-feely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. touchy-feely: Wiktionary
  9. touchy-feely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. touchy-feely: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. touchy-feely: Dictionary.com
  12. touchy-feely: Rhymezone
  13. touchy-feely: FreeDictionary.org
  14. touchy-feely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. touchy-feely: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touchy-feely: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touchy-feely: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. touchy-feely: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. touchy-feely: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
adjective:  (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
adjective:  (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.

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