TENDERNESS Synonyms

• the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

• judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger

• an anxious feeling

• a cause for feeling concern

• attention and management implying responsibility for safety

• activity involved in maintaining something in good working order

• feel concern or interest

• provide care for

• to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something

• be in charge of, act on, or dispose of

• be concerned with

• a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

• the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

• the process of giving careful thought to something

• information that should be kept in mind when making a decision

• a discussion of a topic (as in a meeting)

• kind and considerate regard for others

• a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone

• a considerate and thoughtful act

• the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual

• acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered

• the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic

• tendency to be kind and forgiving

• a kind act

• a strong positive emotion of regard and affection

• any object of warm affection or devotion

• a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

• a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction

• a score of zero in tennis or squash

• sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people

• have a great affection or liking for

• get pleasure from

• be enamored or in love with

• have sexual intercourse with

• (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation

• the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences

• sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others)

• susceptibility to a pathogen

• the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

• a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other

• the sensation caused by heat energy

• a warmhearted feeling

• the quality of having a moderate degree of heat

• the trait of being intensely emotional

• a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love

• a positive feeling of liking

• a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love

• a predisposition to like something

• a positive feeling of liking

• a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love

• the locus of feelings and intuitions

• the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body

• the courage to carry on

• an area that is approximately central within some larger region

• the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience

• an inclination or tendency of a certain kind

• a plane figure with rounded sides curving inward at the top and intersecting at the bottom; conventionally used on playing cards and valentines

• a firm rather dry variety meat (usually beef or veal)

• a positive feeling of liking

• a playing card in the major suit that has one or more red hearts on it

• a positive feeling of liking

• a chilly dampness

• the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

• lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience

• a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

• an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress

• warm compassionate feelings

• a warmhearted feeling

• a positive feeling of liking

• a positive feeling of liking

• the quality of having a moderate degree of heat