touchy-feely
Adjective

touchy-feely

  1. (informal) Having a fondness for physical contact with other people, especially to an excessive degree.
    My last boyfriend was a lovely guy, but I dumped him because he was too touchy-feely with me in public.
  2. (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Driven by intuition or emotion, with a connotation of de-emphasis of rational thought or logic.
    He preferred the clarity of science and left the touchy-feely stuff to others.
  3. (idiomatic, usually derogatory) Appealing to emotion, sympathy, or romance.
    I think the movie had too much touchy-feely nonsense and not enough action.



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