What's the difference between ticklish and touchy?
Ticklish
Definition:
(a.) Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
(a.) Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
(a.) Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I think it must be possible that News Corp will get rid of its entire British holdings, of newspapers that is, and that if it is to do so, first of all the problem would have vanished if you like from the point of view of the parent company and for us as investors, and the shares will certainly bounce up again, and so it is a ticklish area."
(2) They include: The Ticklish Subject , which deals with "the spectre of the Cartesian subject in western thought"; The Plague of Fantasies , which analyses the ways in which "audiovisual media clouds the ability to reason and understand the world"; and the wonderfully titled Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?
(3) behind these miscellaneous behavior disorders which evoke more an antisocial personality, is ticklish.
(4) The discovery of synchronous hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer poses a tactical problem ticklish to resolve.
(5) Following hypotheses by Darwin and Hecker on the connection between tickling and humorous laughter, questionnaire data were collected from 100 college students regarding their reported ticklishness and tendencies to laugh and show responses ancillary to laughter.
(6) He has organised a series of seminars on national security strategy, its relation to national identity and the ticklish problem of disentangling the spying and communications infrastructures.
(7) These findings lend preliminary support for the Darwin-Hecker conjecture that reflexes underlying ticklishness mediate humor.
(8) They need to recover from their post-Copa hangover fairly quickly, or else qualification could get ticklish, at best.
(9) Ticklishness was related to propensities to: (a) giggle, (b) laugh, (c) smile, (d) piloerect, (e) blush, and (f) cry.
(10) The results of this survey reveal a significative increase of the basic plasmatic cortisol among the depressed patients, including dysthymics, a decrease of the plasmatic MHPG during major depressions, and a significant fall of the total T3 among depressed men, as well as some correlations between the different axes, the interpretation of which remains "ticklish".
Touchy
Definition:
(a.) Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davey has made it clear there will be no attempt to compete with Classic FM, which, with its touchy feeliness and “smiling down the airwaves”, has almost treble Radio 3’s audience.
(2) Perhaps the new Marr has yet to make his touchy-feely debut.
(3) Voters looking for further nuance might have been left a little underwhelmed, not least by the expectation that world-famous analytic philosophers tend not to rely on anything as touchy feely as intuition.
(4) She also combines a refusal to do touchy-feely with a sharp eye for a populist policy – support for bobbies on the beat, for example – that has proved a winning combination in Westminster and among the rightwing press.
(5) In recent weeks he has appeared uncharacteristically downbeat and touchy.
(6) Broadcasters and production companies are touchy when asked about their policies on inclusion.
(7) The "feminisation of European culture" has been underway since the 1830s, and by now, men have been reduced to an "emasculate[d] … touchy-feely subspecies".
(8) In terms of affective complaints, patients were more depressive, anxious, touchy and irritable; their personalities showed a higher degree of emotional lability, excitement and irritability.
(9) In that time, I never achieved the serene illusion of infallibility that distinguishes Jimmy: “I haven’t been wrong about a play since 1924, and on that night I happened to be afflicted with a head cold.” He is selfish, rude, touchy, spoilt, extravagant and, in the way of such characters, much loved by his friends.
(10) And it is hard to look at the pictures, ubiquitous this morning, without a disgracefully touchy-feely, yes, I fear, even protectively feminine response.
(11) It was Mr Kohl's "touchy-feely" politics that enabled him to forge a relationship with François Mitterrand that was the bedrock of the German-French axis within the European Union and which enabled the swift reunification of Germany .
(12) On the other hand, the company appears touchy about being pressed on such subjects.
(13) As it develops, digital is becoming more touchy-feely and more sensory,” Jones notes.
(14) Since taking over at the Vatican, Francis has urged the Catholic church not to be obsessed with "small-minded rules" and to emphasise compassion over condemnation in dealing with touchy topics like abortion, gay rights and contraception.
(15) It would not be surprising if the UN is touchy about its approach to population questions.
(16) "It's a touchy subject, but as a southerner you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary.
(17) Even primary school children seem well aware that who did what in the Levant before the war is a touchy subject.
(18) It is a touchy subject for Rohingya, many of whom lack any documentation but insist that their ancestors were born and bred in the state.
(19) Among the names who have fired away are CJ Wilson, Max Scherzer, Brad Ziegler, Skip Schumaker and his Dodgers teammate Matt Kemp, who said: Talking about things like this is very, very touchy.
(20) You see this trend of self-publication: things being democratised all over the place like photography and video, but this is something that hasn’t really been democratised yet.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can see how this might be a sensitive topic for some DJs who’ve worked hard to develop their skills over the years, only to see apps come along promising to let anyone have a bash, complete with that sync feature – a whole other touchy topic in itself – to make the actual mixing less of a challenge.