softheartedness
Tendency toward mercy
Softheartedness is the quality of being easily moved to sympathy, pity, or compassion.
A softhearted person is quick to forgive, reluctant to cause pain, and vulnerable to emotional appeals: Her softheartedness made it impossible to say no to the stray cat.
The trait can be admired as kindness or criticized as excessive sentimentality.
Gentle, caring quality
- kindheartednessGenerous, caring disposition
- warmheartednessSincere affection toward others
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
sympathy · pity · clemency · forgiveness · charity · humaneness · consideration · concern
Responsiveness to stimuli
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- responsivenessReadiness to react
- perceptivenessAbility to notice subtleties
intuition · emotional awareness · receptivity · connection · rapport · listening · mindfulness · discernment
Quality of being accessible
- trustingInclined to believe others
- unguardedWithout protection or caution
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- naivetyInnocent lack of experience
gullibility · impressionability · susceptibility · sentimentality · innocence · thin-skinned
tenderness
Gentle, caring quality
- kindheartednessGenerous, caring disposition
- warmheartednessSincere affection toward others
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
mercy · sympathy · pity · clemency · forgiveness · charity · humaneness · consideration · concern · care
sensitivity
Responsiveness to stimuli
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- responsivenessReadiness to react
perceptiveness · intuition · emotional awareness · receptivity · connection · rapport · listening · mindfulness · discernment · insight
openness
Quality of being accessible
- trustingInclined to believe others
- unguardedWithout protection or caution
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
naivety · gullibility · impressionability · susceptibility · sentimentality · innocence · thin-skinned
- compassionsympathy, empathy, caring, kindness, tenderness
- Heart compoundswarmhearted, coldhearted, kindhearted, wholehearted, halfhearted
softheartednesshardheartedness
Absence of pity
cold-heartedness · callousness · heartlessness · cruelty · pitilessness
soft, heart, softness, lighthearted, big-hearted, hearted, kind-hearted, softhearted, fainthearted