Tenderness

/ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/ · noun

Meaning

Quality, state or condition of being tender..

Definitions by Sense

1. Quality, state or condition of being tender.
2. A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings.
3. A concern for the feelings or welfare of others.
4. (medicine, pathology) A pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched.

Example Sentences

He picked her up in his arms with great tenderness.

When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.

I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.

Love me, try to be understanding / Tenderness is all that I'm asking / Don't feel like I'm making conditions / I want to overcome my inhibitions

YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.

When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.

Everybody needs a little tenderness sometimes.

Quiet people too, for I think that about this time a sort of remorseful tenderness comes over the bullies and the nagsters, so that they go about gently and deprecatingly, hoping by one day's record sweetness to outface the year's blusterings.

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Word Forms

• tendernesses
• tendernesse

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