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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tenderness \Ten"der*ness\, noun The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Syn: Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tenderness
noun
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
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