caring

Etymology

From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.

adj

1. (of a person) Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
   She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of care

noun

1. The act of one who cares.
   As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings. 1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183