Feeling or evoking emotion (8)
I believe the answer is:
touching
'feeling' is the definition.
(touching is a kind of feeling)
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for touching that I've seen before include "Arousing feelings of sympathy or gratitude" , "Pathetic" , "Contiguous" , "feeling" , "Moving; in contact" .)