Loving
Loving adjective - Feeling or showing love.
Phobia
Phobia noun - An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations.
Nearby Word: phobic
Both words in one sentence
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When she befriends Lil' Pip, she begins to warm up to the others, but never quite grows out of her phobia; even using a smoke grenade to escape a loving hug.
Source: Hates Being Touched - In Pushing Daisies, the cheese-loving aunts's agoraphobia without panic disorder is mistakenly called "social phobias" (social phobia, in the singular, is now usually called "social anxiety disorder").
Source: Hollywood Psych
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