LOVING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loving mean? 

• LOVING (adjective)
  The adjective LOVING has 1 sense:

1. feeling or showing love and affection

  Familiarity information: LOVING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOVING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling or showing love and affection

Context example:

loving glances

Similar:

adoring; doting; fond (extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent)

affectionate; fond; lovesome; tender (having or displaying warmth or affection)

amative; amorous (inclined toward or displaying love)

amatory; amorous; romantic (expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance)

attached (fond and affectionate)

captivated; charmed (strongly attracted)

enamored; in love; infatuated; potty; smitten; soft on; taken with (marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness)

idolatrous (blindly or excessively devoted or adoring)

loverlike; loverly (like or in the manner of a lover)

overfond (excessively fond)

tenderhearted (easily moved to love)

touchy-feely ((often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection (especially through physical contact))

uxorious (foolishly fond of or submissive to your wife)

Also:

warmhearted (marked by warmth of feeling like kindness and sympathy and generosity)

attached; committed (associated in an exclusive sexual relationship)

passionate (having or expressing strong emotions)

lovable; loveable (having characteristics that attract love or affection)

Antonym:

unloving (not giving or reciprocating affection)

Derivation:

lovingness (a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love)

lovingness (a loving feeling)

 Context examples 

A slight incident gave Jo the clue to the mystery, she thought, and lively fancy, loving heart did the rest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I loved her, and I went on loving her, most absorbingly, entirely, and completely.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That new moon eclipse arrived conjunct Jupiter, making this one of the most giving and loving new moons I have seen in years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I'm not marrying, and I'm not—well, loving without marrying, though I've done my share of that in the past.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"When the Witch is dead, come to me, and I will then give you the biggest and kindest and most loving heart in all the Land of Oz."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience; and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In this context, the chemical properties of molybdenum play a key role because, as it is an iron-loving element, most of the Earth's molybdenum is located in the core.

(Moon’s Formation Brought Water to Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There for many years in a happy and peaceful old age lived Jack Harrison and his wife, receiving back in the sunset of their lives the loving care which they had themselves bestowed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was noble, unselfish, loving—all that my husband was not.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Long as we have been parted, hot tears as I have wept over our separation, I never thought that while I was mourning her, she was loving another!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)