solicitousness
Eager helpful attention
Solicitousness is the quality of showing attentive care or concern for someone's well-being or comfort.
It suggests hovering attention—checking if someone needs anything, anticipating their wants: His solicitousness toward the elderly guest bordered on fussing.
The word can carry a slightly excessive or anxious quality, as if the care might be unwelcome or performative.
Paying close notice
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- considerateMindful of others' needs
- thoughtfulShowing careful consideration
- tenderSoft or sore
doting · fussing · ministering · looking after · watchful · protective · devoted · affectionate
Troubled by uncertainty
- fretfulAnxiously irritable
- apprehensiveFearful of future events
- nervousUneasy and apprehensive
- uneasyTroubled, not calm
concerned · troubled · overwrought · fretting · hovering · hand-wringing · overprotective · fussing
Sharp or enthusiastic
- earnestSincerely intense in purpose
- enthusiasticShowing intense eager enjoyment
- willingReady without resistance
- readySuitable for use now
attentive · obliging · accommodating · deferential · ingratiating · obsequious · fawning · sycophantic
attentive
Paying close notice
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- considerateMindful of others' needs
- thoughtfulShowing careful consideration
tender · doting · fussing · ministering · looking after · watchful · protective · devoted · affectionate · gentle
worried
Troubled by uncertainty
- fretfulAnxiously irritable
- apprehensiveFearful of future events
- nervousUneasy and apprehensive
uneasy · concerned · troubled · overwrought · fretting · hovering · hand-wringing · overprotective · fussing · agitated
keen
Sharp or enthusiastic
- earnestSincerely intense in purpose
- enthusiasticShowing intense eager enjoyment
- willingReady without resistance
ready · attentive · obliging · accommodating · deferential · ingratiating · obsequious · fawning · sycophantic · unctuous
- carefulnessattention, attentiveness, care, carefulness, caution
- etiquettemanners, politeness, etiquette, table manners, courtesy
solicitousnessindifference
Lack of interest
neglect · unconcern · apathy · disregard · inattentiveness
solicitousnesscruelty
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
harshness · brutality · callousness · barbarousness · unkindness
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