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RELATED WORD : rebound tenderness

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tenderness has 5 senses

• tenderness(n = noun.attribute) Array - a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling; Array
is a kind of affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth
Derived form adjective tender₄

• tenderness(n = noun.state) rawness, soreness - 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"
has particulars: chafing, rebound tenderness, chafe
is a kind of hurting, pain
Derived forms adjective tender₂, adjective tender₆

• tenderness(n = noun.feeling) tenderheartedness - warm compassionate feelings; Array
is a kind of compassion, compassionateness
Derived form adjective tender₁

• tenderness(n = noun.feeling) affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness - 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"
is a kind of feeling
has particulars: attachment, fond regard, protectiveness, regard, respect, soft spot
Derived form adjective tender₄

• tenderness(n = noun.feeling) softheartedness - a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless); Array
is a kind of concern
Derived form adjective tender₁

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THESAURUS

tenderness

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

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Sensibility

N sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness, moral sensibility, impressibility, affectibility, susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity, mobility, vivacity, vivaciousness, tenderness, softness, sentimental, sentimentality, sentimentalism, excitability, fastidiousness, physical sensibility, sore point, sore place, where the shoe pinches, sensible, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, susceptive, susceptible, alive to, impassionable, gushing, warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, sentimental, romantic, enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive, excitable, oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned, fastidious, sensibly, to the quick, to the inmost core, mens aequa in arduis, pour salt in the wound.

Love

N love, fondness, liking, inclination, regard, dilection, admiration, fancy, affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, heart, brotherly love, benevolence, attachment, yearning, eros, tender passion, amour, gyneolatry, gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry, Cupid, Venus, myrtle, true lover's knot, love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story, the, old story, plighted love, courtship, amourette, free love, maternal love, storge, parental love, young love, puppy love, attractiveness, popularity, favorite, lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret, beau, sweetheart, inamorato, swain, young man, flame, love, truelove, leman, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso, cavaliere servente, captive, cicisbeo, caro sposo, inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa, betrothed, affianced, fiancee, flirt, coquette, amorette, pair of turtledoves, abode of love, agapemone, loving, fond of, taken with, struck with, smitten, bitten, attached to, wedded to, enamored, charmed, in love, love-sick, over head and ears in love, head over heels in love, affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving, amorous, amatory, fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly, loved, beloved well beloved, dearly beloved, dear, precious, darling, pet, little, favorite, popular, congenial, after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart, in one's good graces, dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart, lovable, adorable, lovely, sweet, attractive, seductive, winning, charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching, amiable, like an angel, amantes amentes, credula res amor est, militat omnis amasius, love conquers all, omnia vincit amor, si vis amari ama, the sweetest joy, the wildest woe.

Benevolence

N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.

Pity

N pity, compassion, commiseration, bowels, of compassion, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency, leniency, charity, ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae, sympathizer, advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher, pitying, pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched, merciful, clement, ruthful, humane, humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted, unhardened, lenient, exorable, forbearing, melting, weak, Int, for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!, one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.

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