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View synonyms for touchy-feely

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtouchy-ˈfeeliness, noun
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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