| Main Entry: | tenderness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, courtesy, fondness, friendship, gentleness, kindness, love, lovingness, softheartedness, sympathy, warmth |
Antonyms: |
animosity, hatred, hostility, ill will, ruthlessness |
| Main Entry: | tenderness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gentleness |
Synonyms: |
affection, benevolence, compassion, goodness, kindness, love, lovingness, sensitivity, sympathy, warmth, weakness |
Antonyms: |
calousness, toughness |
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
Synonyms: |
amore, ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen* |
Antonyms: |
animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
| Main Entry: | attachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection, high regard |
Synonyms: |
affinity, amore, attraction, bond, case, crush, devotion, fidelity, fondness, friendship, hankering*, liking, love, loyalty, partiality, possessiveness, regard, shine*, tenderness, weakness, yen* |
Antonyms: |
alienation, animosity, aversion, dislike, divorce, enmity, estrangement, hate, hatred, opposition |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration |
Antonyms: |
no mercy |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning |
Antonyms: |
cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, mercilessness, tyranny |
| Main Entry: | delicacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daintiness, fineness of structure |
Synonyms: |
airiness, debility, diaphaneity, elegance, etherealness, exquisiteness, fragility, frailness, frailty, gossameriness, infirmity, lightness, slenderness, smoothness, softness, subtlety, tenderness, tenuity, translucency, transparency, weakness |
Antonyms: |
coarseness, heaviness, indelicacy, inelegance, robustness, roughness |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
Synonyms: |
action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, palpability, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, sharpness, spirit, sympathy, tangibility, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
| Main Entry: | fondness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking or taste for |
Synonyms: |
affection, attachment, devotion, fancy, kindness, love, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, soft spot, susceptibility, tenderness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred, loathing |
| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mercy, forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, caritas, charity, clemency, compassion, compassionateness, favor, forbearance, generosity, good will, goodness, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lenity, love, pardon, quarter, reprieve, responsiveness, tenderness |
Antonyms: |
mercilessness, unforgiveness |