solicitude
Anxious caring attention
Solicitude is attentive care and concern for someone's well-being or comfort.
The word suggests watchful, almost anxious attention—more than casual interest but stopping short of worry: The nurse attended to her patients with quiet solicitude.
It implies a gentle, protective quality, often toward someone vulnerable or in need of support.
Support growth and development
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- attentivenessConcentrated awareness of surroundings
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
- supportTo uphold or sustain
comfort · kindness · patience · sensitivity · thoughtfulness · warmth · welfare · well-being
Compassionate understanding of others
- empathySharing another's emotions
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
mercy · kindness · humanity · goodwill · heart · caring · fellow-feeling · commiseration
State of keen awareness
- alertnessActive mental awareness
- watchfulnessCareful, sustained attention
- heedfulnessQuality of being alert
- observanceKeeping of customs
diligence · meticulousness · conscientiousness · scrupulousness · carefulness · thoroughness · assiduousness · regard
Troubled mental state
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
- nervousnessState of anxious unease
distress · disquiet · misgiving · fretfulness · restlessness · agitation · preoccupation · troubled
nurture
Support growth and development
- tendernessGentle, caring quality
- attentivenessConcentrated awareness of surroundings
- gentlenessSoft, kind demeanor
support · comfort · kindness · patience · sensitivity · thoughtfulness · warmth · welfare · well-being · devotion
sympathy
Compassionate understanding of others
- empathySharing another's emotions
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
tenderness · mercy · kindness · humanity · goodwill · heart · caring · fellow-feeling · commiseration · pity
vigilance
State of keen awareness
- alertnessActive mental awareness
- watchfulnessCareful, sustained attention
- heedfulnessQuality of being alert
observance · diligence · meticulousness · conscientiousness · scrupulousness · carefulness · thoroughness · assiduousness · regard · notice
worry
Troubled mental state
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- uneaseMild persistent worry
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
nervousness · distress · disquiet · misgiving · fretfulness · restlessness · agitation · preoccupation · troubled · burdened
- kindnesskindness, niceness, goodness, gentleness, empathy
- kindnesseskindness, kindnesses, good deeds, generosity, helpfulness
- care ethicscare, caregiving, nurturing, responsibility, responsiveness
- HeideggerDasein, being-in-the-world, authenticity, inauthenticity, care
- charitycharity, charities, donations, donation, donating
solicitudeindifference
Lack of interest
neglect · unconcern · disregard · carelessness · thoughtlessness
solicitudeease
Lack of strain
peace · calm · tranquility · serenity · peacefulness
solicit, solicitous, solicitor, unsolicited, solicitation, solicited, soliciting, solicitors, solicits