soft heart
Easily moved emotionally
A soft heart is a tendency toward compassion, sympathy, and emotional sensitivity.
Someone with a soft heart is easily moved by others' suffering and quick to forgive: She has a soft heart for stray animals.
The term can imply either admirable kindness or excessive sentimentality, depending on context.
Often appears as the adjective soft-hearted.
- tenderSoft or sore
- compassionateShowing concern for sufferers
- gentleSoft and kind
- kindType or caring
- empathySharing another's emotions
warmth · mercy · forgiveness · sympathy · caring · nurturing · warm feelings · vulnerable · sentimental · loving · generous · understanding · pitying · melting · touched · moved · tears of joy · weeping
- compassionsympathy, empathy, caring, kindness, tenderness
- gentle traitskindness, patience, warmth, empathy, compassion
- kindnesskindness, niceness, goodness, gentleness, empathy
- body idiomsheartstrings, gut feeling, gut instinct, backbone, hard head
- childlike innocenceinnocence, wonder, curiosity, playfulness, imagination
- open-heartednesskindness, warmth, caring, giving, empathy
soft heartcold heart
Lack of compassion
heart of stone · callousness · indifference · coldness · apathy
soft hearthard-heartedness
Lack of sympathy
heartlessness · cruelty · ruthlessness · mercilessness · pitilessness
soft heartsteeliness
Unflinching mental toughness
hardness · emotional armor · guardedness · cynicism · world-weariness