soft-heartedness
Readily moved emotionally
Soft-heartedness is the quality of being easily moved to sympathy or compassion.
A soft-hearted person feels others' pain readily and may be quick to forgive or help.
The trait can be admired as kindness or criticized as excessive sentimentality: His soft-heartedness made him an easy mark for con artists.
Considerate, caring disposition
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- sympathyCompassionate understanding of others
caring · warmth · gentleness · humanity · charity · generosity · forgiveness · leniency
Sharing another's emotions
- emotionalShowing strong feelings
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- feelingSensed inner state
- responsivenessReadiness to react
intuition · perceptiveness · attunement · sentimentality · impressionability · moved · tearfulness · thin-skinned
Soft and kind
good-natured · amiable · affectionate · kindhearted · loving · nurturing · patient · soothing
kindness
Considerate, caring disposition
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
sympathy · caring · warmth · gentleness · humanity · charity · generosity · forgiveness · leniency · pity
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
- emotionalShowing strong feelings
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- feelingSensed inner state
responsiveness · intuition · perceptiveness · attunement · sentimentality · impressionability · moved · tearfulness · thin-skinned · receptiveness
gentle
Soft and kind
tender · good-natured · amiable · affectionate · kindhearted · loving · nurturing · patient · soothing · unselfish
- kindnesskindness, niceness, goodness, gentleness, empathy
- mercyclemency, compassion, forgiveness, leniency, lenience
soft-heartednesshard-heartedness
Lack of sympathy
cruelty · cold-heartedness · heartlessness · mercilessness · callousness
soft-heartednesshardness
Resistance to penetration
unfeelingness · sternness · strictness · severity · inflexibility
soft-heartednesstoughness
Resilient durability under strain
hardness · pragmatism · emotional armor · stoicism · imperviousness