Tenderness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenderness":
     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