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Tenderness

noun

A tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.

A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched). Synonyms: rawness, soreness. "After taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on"

Warm compassionate feelings. Synonym: tenderheartedness.

A positive feeling of liking. Synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness. "The child won everyone's heart" , "The warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home"

A feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless). Synonym: softheartedness.

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"Tenderness" Quotes from Famous Books

... the pity and the tenderness of his voice, something seemed to break within her, the awful constriction passed. She hid her face upon his arm, and burst into a ...

— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... doorway smiled as over the misdemeanor of somebody very dear and lovable, and rising from his chair felt his way to a corner shelf, took down a box, and drew from it a violin swathed in a silk bag. He removed the covering with reverential hands. The tenderness of the face was like that of a young mother dressing or undressing her child. As he fingered the instrument his hands seemed to have become all eyes. They wandered caressingly over the polished surface as if enamored of the perfect thing that they had created, ...

— The Village Watch-Tower • (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin

... love there lay no shame, with radiant eyes and blushing face, held out her hand to Sapt. She said nothing, but no man could have missed her meaning, who had ever seen a woman in the exultation of love. A sour, yet sad, smile passed over the old soldier's face, and there was tenderness in his voice, as bending to kiss her hand, ...

— The Prisoner of Zenda • Anthony Hope

... in his sensations. He had won many women to their hurt, but it was the joy of conflict that made the pursuit worth while to him; and this young woman, who could so delightfully bubble with little laughs ready to spill over and was yet possessed of a spirit so finely superior to the tenderness of her soft, round, maidenly curves, allured him mightily ...

— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine

... Therese. As Louis' infidelities increased in number, his sense of guilt toward his consort was stamped deeper on his consciousness. He endeavored to make amends by paying her marked respect and treating her at times with distinguished tenderness and consideration. But Versailles was the high seat of elaborate and elegant insincerity, and no one was deceived by the formal courtesies paid by the Sun King to his unhappy wife. The deference that he displayed toward her in public appeared to the eyes ...

— The Story of Versailles • Francis Loring Payne

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