Synonyms of the word

tenderness

• n. a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings.
• n. concern for the feelings or welfare of others.
• n. pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched.

affection

• n. The act of affecting or acting upon.
• n. The state of being affected.
• n. An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.
• n. An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.
• n. A feeling of love or strong attachment.
• n. (medicine, archaic) Disease; morbid symptom; malady.
• v. to feel an affection, emotion or love for.

affectionateness

• n. The state or quality of being affectionate.

compassion

• n. Deep awareness of the suffering of another, coupled with the wish to relieve it.
• v. (obsolete) To pity.

compassionateness

• n. The state or quality of being compassionate.

concern

• n. That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone. The adposition before…
• n. The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.
• n. A business, firm or enterprise; a company.
• n. (programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.
• v. (transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of;…
• v. (transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.
• v. (transitive) To make somebody worried.

feeling

• adj. Emotionally sensitive.
• adj. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility.
• n. Sensation, particularly through the skin.
• n. Emotion; impression.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional state or well-being.
• n. (always in the plural) Emotional attraction or desire.
• n. Intuition.
• n. An opinion, an attitude.
• v. present participle of feel.

fondness

• n. the quality of being fond.

heart

• n. (anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of…
• n. (uncountable) Emotions, kindness, moral effort, or spirit in general.
• n. The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage,…
• n. Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
• n. Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
• n. (archaic) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
• n. A conventional shape or symbol used to represent the heart, love, or emotion: ♥ or sometimes <3.
• n. A playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols.
• n. The centre, essence, or core.
• v. (transitive, poetic or humorous) To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
• v. (transitive, masonry) To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater.
• v. (intransitive, agriculture, botany) To form a dense cluster of leaves, a heart, especially of lettuce…

hurting

• v. present participle of hurt.
• n. A sensation that hurts.

lovingness

• n. The quality of being loving.

pain

• n. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation,…
• n. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure;…
• n. (countable) An annoying person or thing.
• n. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
• n. Labour; effort; pains.
• v. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any…
• v. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.

philia

• n. friendship (translating Greek φιλία in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics).
• n. liking.
• n. (countable) a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something.

rawness

• n. The property of being raw.

softheartedness

• n. The state or condition of being softhearted; sentimental tenderness.

soreness

• n. The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.

tenderheartedness

• n. (uncountable) The characteristic of being tenderhearted.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being tenderhearted.

warmheartedness

• n. the quality of being warmhearted.

warmness

• n. the state of being warm; warmth.

warmth

• n. A moderate degree of heat; the sensation of being warm.
• n. Friendliness, kindness or affection.
• n. Fervor, intensity of emotion or expression.
• n. (art) The effect of using mostly red and yellow hues.