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Dictionary Results For "tenderness" [?]/[OPML]
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English

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Noun

  1. a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
  2. :When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
  3. concern for the feelings or welfare of others
  4. :When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
  5. pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
  6. :He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Tenderness \Ten"der*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the
adjective).
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness;
pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet tenderness
n 1: a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
2: a pain that is felt when the area is touched [syn: soreness]
3: warm compassionate feelings [syn: tenderheartedness]
4: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the
affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart" [syn:
affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, warmheartedness]
5: a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially
someone defenseless) [syn: softheartedness]
Moby Dictionary
acceptance
, airiness , algesia , allergy , anaphylaxis , ascent ,
bleeding heart
, bloom , bowels of compassion , bubbliness , budtime ,
buoyancy
, clemency , clementness , compassion , compassionateness ,
considerateness
, daintiness , delicacy , downiness , early years ,
easiness
, easygoingness , empathy , ethereality , exquisiteness ,
featheriness
, festering , fineness , floatability , florescence ,
flossiness
, flowering time , fluffiness , foaminess , fondness ,
forbearance
, forbearing , frothiness , gentleness , gossameriness ,
humaneness
, humanity , hyperesthesia , hyperpathia , hypersensitivity ,
identification
, inflammation , insolidity , irritability , irritation ,
jeunesse
, juvenescence , juvenility , lack of weight , laxness ,
lenience
, leniency , lenientness , lenity , levitation , levity ,
lightness
, mellowness , mercifulness , mercy , mildness , moderateness ,
morbidezza
, my burning youth , my green age , nervousness ,
nonresistiveness
, nonrigidity , oversensibility , oversensitiveness ,
overtenderness
, passibility , patience , perceptiveness ,
perceptivity
, photophobia , pity , plushiness , prickliness ,
prime of life
, pulpiness , rankling , responsiveness , ruthfulness ,
salad days
, satininess , seedtime of life , sensitiveness ,
sensitivity
, sensitization , silkiness , softheartedness , softness ,
sore
, sore spot , soreness , sponginess , springtime of life ,
supersensitivity
, sympathy , tact , tactfulness , tender age ,
tender feeling
, tenderheartedness , tetchiness , thin skin ,
ticklishness
, tolerance , touchiness , unheaviness , unsolidity ,
velvetiness
, volatility , warm heart , warmheartedness , weakness ,
weightlessness
, yeastiness , young blood , youngness , youth ,
youthfulness
, youthhead , youthhood , youthiness


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