Synonyms for hugging
hug·ging

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

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

   Synonyms:
   snuggling, petting, kissing, gorgerin, fondling, smooching, caressing, necking, cuddling

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1. List of paraphrases for "hugging":

   hug, kiss

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1. Fariha Abbasi-Feinberg:

   Some individuals might want a heavier weight to feel a sense of' hugging' and calmness, while others might want something lighter.

2. Jodi Smith:

   In New York City and Boston there isn't as much hugging as you would see in Southern California.

3. Seneca Scott:

   If you can look at it from all angles, and it’s probably two people hugging each other, it’s four hands. It’s not the missing heads that’s the atrocity that other people clamp onto that; it’s a stump that looked like a penis. That’s a joke.

4. Dusty Kornbacher:

   All the parking lots were full with parents and kids hugging each other and crying and nobody really knowing what was going on.

5. 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.