Tenderness

Noun

 * 1) a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
 * When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
 * 1) concern for the feelings or welfare of others
 * When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
 * 1) pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
 * He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.

Adjectives for Tenderness
respectful; wounded; tearful; solemn; passionate; renewed; marked; sexual; dawning; yearning; melting; latent; pardonable; quaint; compassionate; human; spontaneous; newborn; bountiful; boundless; exquisite; conjugal; maternal; growing; unutterable; secondary; paternal; natural; deep; laughing; patriarchal; credulous; brief; immense; profound, elephantine; saddened; masculine; ineffable; touching; increasing; pathetic; grateful; infinite; unaccustomed; majestic; flowery; rugged; zealous; connubial; wishful; infinite; malicious; grave; wild; ineffable; excessive; rough; unvarying; flavorsome; graceful; universal; etherealized; brooding; shy; surpassing; patronizing; ideal; searching; sufficient; cternal; heavenly; uneradicated; peculiar.

Verbs for Tenderness
affect—; arouse—; cherish—; display—; evince—; excite—; exhibit—; infuse—; inspire—; move to—; propitiate in—; relent in—; sense—; temper with—; treasure—; —assuages; —captivates; —charms; —disarms; —engages; —floods; —melts; — mitigates;  —mollifies;   —pervades;   -— pierces; —stirs.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Zärtlichkeit
 * Luxembourgish: Zäertlechkeet
 * Portuguese: ternura


 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Russian: заботливость, чуткость


 * Swedish:


 * Russian: чувствительность


 * Swedish: