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What does tenderness mean?

tenderness

— noun a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling — noun warm compassionate feelings — noun (= rawness) 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 — noun (= softheartedness) a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless) — noun (= affection, heart, 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

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softness gentleness affection fondness compassion love delicacy kindness pity affectionateness smoothness mildness mercy delicateness youth warmheartedness sympathy endearment caress youthfulness warmness thinness tenderheartedness soreness softheartedness rawness philia petting juvenility heart grace freshness frailty blandness wetness weakness warmth vulnerable virginity touchiness susceptible soft slenderness sensitivity sensitive sensibility romance relaxation regard open-heartedness

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Tenderness is an important element in a person's character.

The world needs more tenderness.

A wave of tenderness swept over her.

I looked at her and saw tenderness in her eyes.

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I know you will come back. I know that your tenderness, your trust and your love are the most important parts of the fortune you will always have.

She was incapable of love. or tenderness or decency.

Now, tenderness, that is what I advocate.

Tenderness and patience.

You've got inquisitiveness and tenderness.

In the sunset of our lives, we need companionship, love, tenderness.

But you will always keep your tenderness and your smile.

Tenderness.

That strange tenderness?

She brought warmth and tenderness into your life.

A nervousness, a tenderness. an uncertainty.

But beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart.

I've always refused father's love, caresses, tenderness, goodness, attentions and sacrifices.

You must weigh the good against the evil. The passion against the tenderness. The crime against the charity.

Thanks to the two sweethearts, an atmosphere of. tenderness permeates the old antrum of the fairies.

Griffin displays genuine tenderness toward his inamorata.

I need trust and tenderness, and I can give them in return.

To put pride before desire to search men's hearts for tenderness and find only ambition to cry out in the dark for one unselfish voice and hear only the dry rustle of papers of state.

The tenderness you gave to me I give back to him.

Its sugar-smoked tenderness.

She came to me with love and tenderness.

You have to be tumescent with tenderness and life experience!

Sometimes tenderness and kindness can also make a man.

It beats with tenderness.

She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.

Thank you for your politeness, tenderness and kindness.

Physical beauty is passing, a transitory possession. But beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart.

Manliness is also tenderness. and gentleness. and consideration.

She liked men and had always taken great pleasure in their tenderness, and she indulged in this pleasure with a cheerful matter-of-factness.

Affection, tenderness.

No, Mr. Humbert confesses to a certain titillation of his vanity to some faint tenderness, even to a pattern of remorse daintily running along the steel of his conspiratorial dagger.

I have a great feeling of tenderness for you.

There's no tenderness in us.

That tenderness?

I will do penance for it. Your mama Teresa is a wonderful woman, full of tenderness and pity.

You know I feel such tenderness for you.

I don't know what to do with my tenderness.

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