Tenderness
['tendənəs] or ['tɛndɚnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.
(noun.) warm compassionate feelings.
(noun.) 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'.
Edited by Cecilia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Typed by Harrison
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Softness, delicacy, want of firmness.[2]. Weakness, want of strength, feebleness.[3]. Effeminacy, womanly quality.[4]. Soreness, sensitiveness.[5]. Compassion, kindness, sympathy, affection, pity, love, gentleness, benevolence, leniency, clemency, sensibility, mildness, benignity, humanity, loving-kindness.[6]. Pathos.[7]. Caution, carefulness.
Checker: Mara
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Delicacy, softness, kindness, sensibility, pity, benevolence, humanity,clemency, benefit
Editor: Segre
Examples
- It woke a certain keen, half contemptuous pity, tenderness for him: she was so ruthless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Where I took her into this wretched breast when it was first bleeding from its stabs, and where I have lavished years of tenderness upon her! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- We redoubled our tenderness and earnest attentions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In all the grandeur of these forests there is repose; in all their freshness there is tenderness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Admirable tenderness! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference to Mrs. Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I could not but perceive that Perdita loved Raymond; methought also that he regarded the fair daughter of Verney with admiration and tenderness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A wonderful tenderness burned in him, at the sight of her quivering, so sensitive fingers: and at the same time he was full of rage and callousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was something in this simple memento of a blighted childhood, and in the tenderness of Mrs Boffin, that touched the Secretary. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But in all the intimate relations of life his essential tenderness was manifest. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Perdita looked at him like one amazed; her expressive countenance shone for a moment with tenderness; to see him only was happiness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He rose and came towards me, and I saw his face all kindled, and his full falcon-eye flashing, and tenderness and passion in every lineament. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have still some tenderness left for you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- With a renewal of tenderness, however, they returned to her room on leaving the dining-parlour, and sat with her till summoned to coffee. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- There is that in woman's tenderness which induces her to believe too easily. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Terence