tenderness
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tenderness
n 1: a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
2: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best
results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into
the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold,
rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn:
{tenderness}, {soreness}, {rawness}]
3: warm compassionate feelings [syn: {tenderness},
{tenderheartedness}]
4: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the
affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the
warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn:
{affection}, {affectionateness}, {fondness}, {tenderness},
{heart}, {warmness}, {warmheartedness}, {philia}]
5: a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially
someone defenseless) [syn: {softheartedness}, {tenderness}]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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