hitting vs touching

hitting and touching both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hitting	Yes	No	No	No
touching	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, touching is a hypernym of hitting; that is, touching is a word with a broader meaning than hitting:

Other hypernyms of hitting include touch.

hitting (noun)	touching (noun)
the act of contacting one thing with another	the act of putting two things together with no space between them
	the event of something coming in contact with the body

hitting (adjective)	touching (adjective)
	arousing affect