Tenderness

What do we mean by tenderness?

A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings

Concern for the feelings or welfare of others

Pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched

Of or relating to tender acts. Compassion, warmth, affection, gentleness. Opposite of cruelty, violence, sadism, callousness, cynicism, bitterness. Urban Dictionary

An upset caucasian woman who is easily persuaded by the comforting words of an African American male. Often used in love ballads as a filler word. The ambiguity of the word adds to the it's allure. Urban Dictionary

Someone “on Tender" is a new Tinder user unfamiliar with the ethos, etiquette and mentality, comprising the app’s dualistic sociality of idealized, YOLO-ironic hookup culture and societally significant Millennial sexual progressiveness, resulting in a lack of matches and an overly innocent approach to interacting with matches. Urban Dictionary

Being soft, weak, to sensitive, to emotional Urban Dictionary

Talking about acts of kindness, compassion or precious moments. Referring to people who are quite muscular. Urban Dictionary

A goaltender of the hockey descent. Urban Dictionary

A Male's tender meat. The testicles, the softies, the soft ones. Urban Dictionary

To immerse the subject person in continuous patterns of sincere, intense and highly concentrated physical and emotional affection. "Tenderized Love" represents the climactic state of amorousness that results between the subject and the "acting party" after prolonged episodes of tenderizing. Urban Dictionary

Lack of temperment in handling rough or hot objects. Urban Dictionary

ADJ. Used to descibe a female who is very good looking in that innocent way. Side Note: In sign language tender is expressed by the pinching of the thumb and forefinger together. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to tenderness:
tenderness, tenseness, genderless, tenderest, slenderness, tenderers, endedness.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word tenderness:
palpation, gynecomastia, peritonitis, redness, appendicitis, estradiol, swelling, headache, nausea, sweetness, abdominal, delicacy, menstrual, pelvic, bowel, stiffness, enlargement, warmth, discomfort, compassion, pain, quadrant, generosity, distal, vomiting, abdomen, affection, wolves, dysfunction, fatigue, inflammation, otis, elbow, flavor, painful, bleeding, humor, charm, beef, weakness, muscles, muscle, sympathy, humour, feeling, acute, innocence, symptoms, emotions, fever, meat, passion, rage, breast, focal, diagnosis, bolton, insight, anger, bone, romantic, tender, decreased, shoulder, examination, patient, beauty, syndrome, emotional, touch, humanity, tissue, affected, knee, strength, sign, clinical, grace, burning, patients, skin, love, shock, signs, severe, elevated, findings, friendship, treatment, occur, critic, virgin, soul, poetry, poems, soft, poet, sounds.

Words that rhyme with tenderness:
slenderness.

Adjectives that are often used to describe tenderness:
great, abdominal, local, much, infinite, exquisite, maternal, deep, more, extreme, utmost, greatest, marked, peculiar, slight, epigastric, passionate, paternal, joint, parental, diffuse, maximum, filial, mild, sudden, cervical, localized, feminine, excessive, maximal, strange, motherly, upper, uterine, ineffable, acute, inexpressible, unusual, focal, genuine, mutual, spinal, severe, adnexal, womanly, affectionate, sweet, conjugal, extraordinary, manly, pelvic, generalized, fatherly, gentle, divine, delicate, moderate, point, bony, wistful, less, soft, wonderful, anxious, suprapubic, palpable, costovertebral, unexpected, unutterable, unspeakable, breast, superficial, profound, respectful, protective, grave, compassionate, unwonted, intense.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective tenderness:
survives, present, persists, scores, distal, proximal, lateral, posterior, medial, touch, turns, withers, anterior, general, increases, palpation, sympathy, forces.

Consonant match to tenderness:
tendinous.

Words that sound like tenderness:
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