tender feelings
Gentle emotional warmth
Tender feelings are emotions marked by gentleness, affection, or vulnerability.
The phrase often describes romantic or sentimental attachment: She developed tender feelings for him over time.
It can also refer to emotions easily wounded—feelings that require careful handling: I didn't want to hurt his tender feelings.
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
- deep affectionIntense emotional attachment
- warmthHeat you feel
- warm heartEmotional generosity, caring nature
- fondnessWarm liking or affection
soft spot · softness · gentle · gentle touch · caring · love · puppy love · devotion · sweetness · loving gaze · vulnerability · intimacy · emotional bond · cherish · adore · sentimental · heartfelt · heart strings
- sentimentalismsensibility, sentiment, sentimentality, pathos, emotional expression
- infatuationcrush, infatuation, infatuated, smitten, first love
- Lovesicklovesick, lovelorn, heartsick, pining, yearning
- moral emotionsguilt, shame, remorse, moral guilt, conscience
tender feelingscoldness
Low temperature state
indifference · aloofness · frigidity · apathy · emotional distance
tender feelingshard-heartedness
Lack of sympathy
callousness · hardness · stoniness · cold-heartedness · steeliness
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