What does Tenderness mean?
Definitions for Tenderness
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Princeton's WordNet
tendernessnoun
a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
tenderness, soreness, rawnessnoun
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"
tenderness, tenderheartednessnoun
warm compassionate feelings
affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philianoun
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"
softheartedness, tendernessnoun
a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
Wiktionary
tendernessnoun
a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
tendernessnoun
concern for the feelings or welfare of others
When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
tendernessnoun
pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Tendernessnoun
Etymology: tendresse, Fr. from tender.
Pied cattle are spotted in their tongues, the tenderness of the part receiving more easily alterations than other parts of the flesh. Francis Bacon.
The difference of the muscular flesh depends upon the hardness, tenderness, moisture, or driness of the fibres. Arbuth.
A quickness and tenderness of sight could not endure bright sun-shine. John Locke.
Any zealous for his country, must conquer that tenderness and delicacy which may make him afraid of being spoken ill of. Addison.
There are examples of wounded persons, that have roared for anguish at the discharge of ordnance, though at a great distance; what insupportable torture then should we be under upon a like concussion in the air, when all the whole body would have the tenderness of a wound. Richard Bentley, Sermons.
Weep no more, lest I give cause
To be suspected of more tenderness
Than doth become a man. William Shakespeare.Well we know your tenderness of heart,
And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse
To your kindred. William Shakespeare, Richard III.With what a graceful tenderness he loves!
And breathes the softest, the sincerest vows! Addison.Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Philip and Margaret. Francis Bacon.
My conscience first receiv’d a tenderness,
Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter’d
By th’ bishop of Bayon. William Shakespeare, Henry VIII.Some are unworthily censured for keeping their own, whom tenderness how to get honestly teacheth to spend discreetly; whereas such need no great thriftiness in preserving their own who assume more liberty in exacting from others. Henry Wotton.
True tenderness of conscience is nothing else but an awful and exact sense of the rule which should direct it; and while it steers by this compass, and is sensible of every declination from it, so long it is properly tender. South.
There being implanted in every man’s nature a great tenderness of reputation, to be careless of it is looked on as a mark of a degenerous mind. Government of the Tongue.
Wikipedia
Tenderness
Tenderness is a song by General Public from their 1984 album All the Rage, produced by I. R. S. Records. It was featured in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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tenderness
Tenderness is a feeling or display of warmth, affection, sympathy, or compassion towards others. It can also refer to a characteristic of sensitivity to touch or pain, particularly used in a medical context. Additionally, in relation to food, tenderness refers to the quality of being easy to chew or cut.
Webster Dictionary
Tendernessnoun
the quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective)
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Tenderness in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Tenderness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Tenderness in a Sentence
I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent, i referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.
...Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based on truth and nurtured with tenderness will be to the benefit not only of Kamerun and France, but also of mankind as a whole.”
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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- něhaCzech
- ZärtlichkeitGerman
- tenerecoEsperanto
- ternuraSpanish
- لطافتPersian
- hellyysFinnish
- tendresseFrench
- kelembutanIndonesian
- tenerezzaItalian
- רוךHebrew
- ಮೃದುತ್ವKannada
- multitudo viscerum tuorumLatin
- ZäertlechkeetLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ømhetNorwegian
- czułośćPolish
- ternuraPortuguese
- grijă, prudență, tandrețe, sensibilitateRomanian
- заботливость, нежность, чуткость, чувствительностьRussian
- ömhetSwedish
- צערטלעכקייַטYiddish
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