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Feeling or evoking emotion (8)

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touching

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'feeling' is the definition.
(touching is a kind of feeling)

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(Other definitions for touching that I've seen before include "Arousing feelings of sympathy or gratitude" , "Pathetic" , "Contiguous" , "feeling" , "Moving; in contact" .)

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