noun
- plural of tenderness; gentle care, kindness, or affection
- plural of tenderness; the quality of being easily hurt or damaged; sensitivity
Usage: formal or literary
Usage: formal
Examples
- The mother showed many small tendernesses toward her sick child.
- His poetry captured the various tendernesses of human emotion.
- The nurse’s gentle tendernesses helped comfort the patients.
- She remembered all the quiet tendernesses of their friendship.
- The plant’s tendernesses made it unsuitable for harsh climates.
- Different flowers have different tendernesses to frost.