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Princeton's WordNet

  1. caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snugglingnoun

    affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs)

Wiktionary

  1. kissingadjective

    Just touching.

Wikipedia

  1. kissing

    A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. Depending on the culture and context, a kiss can express sentiments of love, passion, romance, sexual attraction, sexual activity, sexual arousal, affection, respect, greeting, peace, and good luck, among many others. In some situations, a kiss is a ritual, formal or symbolic gesture indicating devotion, respect, or a sacramental. The word came from Old English cyssan ("to kiss"), in turn from coss ("a kiss").

ChatGPT

  1. kissing

    Kissing is the act of pressing one's lips against another person or an object, as a gesture of affection, respect, greeting, farewell, or desire. It could also involve slight sucking or light touching with the tongue. Kissing can also refer to touching or caressing with the lips as a sign of love, sexual desire, or greeting.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Kissing

    of Kiss

Wikidata

  1. Kissing

    Kissing is a municipality in the Aichach-Friedberg district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located just 10 km south of Augsburg and has about 11,200 inhabitants. Kissing was first mentioned in a document in 1050 AD as Chissingin, it was a minor regional centre of rule and jurisdiction called a Hofmark. In even earlier times, around 500, there was a thing hill nearby, which was later swept away by the floods of the river Lech. The surname Kissinger means inhabitant of Bad Kissingen.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of kissing in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of kissing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of kissing in a Sentence

  1. Courtney Wilson and Taylor Guerrero:

    We were holding hands and I was kissing her cheek, we were just happy to be out here.

  2. Robert Quigley:

    Social distancing, one of the recommended mitigation strategies, may be difficult to implement with some cultures accustomed to intimate contact a handshake, kissing, hugging, and not all public health resources are created equal. The measures of containment, screening, quarantine, isolation may vary from one jurisdiction to another. Italy is the European nation with the greatest number of air connections with China, so it is no surprise that this country has been hit the hardest.

  3. Hugh Hefner:

    I don't care about the act. I care about how he reacted to it and how I was told by the media what happened. That scarred me. The act Kendra Wilkinson was referring to was when Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett claims Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett was fondled through Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett basketball shorts by the model. Kendra Wilkinson explained that the incident occurred after Kendra Wilkinson went to the model’s home to buy some marijuana and encountered her nude and kissing another transgender woman when Kendra Wilkinson exited the restroom at the home. I saw something I thought I would never see in my life.

  4. Blake Lively:

    It’s a cruel and unusual form of torture, and then my daughter goes, ‘Dada!’ and she starts hugging and kissing the screen and waving at him, and he’s not waving back and she doesn’t understand why he’s not waving back. She thinks it’s like FaceTime. And it’s because Daddy’s getting it.

  5. Vanessa Tyson:

    What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault, mr. Fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch. Only then did I realize that he had unbuckled his belt, unzipped his pants, and taken out his penis. He then forced his penis into my mouth.

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