Exposure and Touching

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Exposure noun - The state of being left without shelter or protection against something harmful.

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Touching and exposure are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Touching" instead a noun "Exposure".

Nearby Words: expose, exposed, exposition, exposing

Touching noun - The act of putting two things together with no space between them.

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Exposure and touching are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exposure" instead a noun "Touching".

Nearby Words: touch, touched, touchy, toucher, touchable

In one episode of Northern Exposure, Joel and Maggie manage to have sex (or at least achieve mutual fulfillment) without ever physically touching each other, and then share a cigarette afterwards.

Source: Smoking Hot Sex
Rape as Drama: The sexual abuse is treated deadly seriously, both psychologically in its traumatic effects on Ivar, and dramatically in its exposure of the Governor's hypocrisy and its ultimate effect of touching off the riot.

Source: Film / King of Devil's Island
In reality, you'd need several minutes of exposure to liquid nitrogen to achieve such a result, and touching anything that cold with bare skin would probably leave you in need of a new appendage or two.

Source: Ice Breaker

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