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Webster 1913 Edition
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tenderness
TEN'DERNESS
,Noun.
1.
The state of being easily hurt; soreness; as the tenderness of flesh when bruised or inflamed.2.
Susceptibility of the softer passions; sensibility. Well we know your tenderness of heart.
3.
Kind attention; anxiety for the good of another, or to save him from pain.4.
Scrupulousness; caution; extreme care or concern not to give or to commit offense; as tenderness of conscience.5.
Cautious care to preserve or not to injure; as a tenderness of reputation.6.
Softness of expression; pathos.Definition 2024
tenderness
tenderness
English
Noun
tenderness (countable and uncountable, plural tendernesses)
- a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
- When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
- Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- 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.
- concern for the feelings or welfare of others
- When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
- pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
- He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.
Translations
a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
concern for the feelings or welfare of others
pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
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