tenderheartedness
Easily moved emotionally
Tenderheartedness is the quality of being easily moved to compassion, sympathy, or sorrow.
Someone with tenderheartedness feels others' pain acutely and responds with gentleness: Her tenderheartedness made it impossible for her to pass a stray animal without stopping.
The word suggests emotional softness as a virtue rather than a weakness.
Compassionate understanding of others
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
- pitySympathy for misfortune
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
solicitude · clemency · leniency · forgiveness · grace · soft-heartedness · humaneness · fellow-feeling
Warm emotional attachment
- caringShowing kind concern
- lovingFeeling deep affection
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- fondnessWarm liking or affection
devotion · doting · attachment · adoration · cherishing · endearment · sweetness · lovingness
Mental comprehension of something
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
- perceptivenessAbility to notice subtleties
intuition · connection · responsiveness · awareness · mindfulness · fellow-feeling · identification · resonance
Yielding to gentle pressure
- delicacyRefined sensitivity or rarity
- mildnessGentle, moderate quality
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
- soothingReducing distress or discomfort
patience · tactfulness · carefulness · considerateness · meekness · lamblike · dovelike · soft-spoken
Transferring to another
- selflessnessPrioritizing others over oneself
- magnanimityGenerous, noble spirit
- liberalityGenerous spirit or giving
- open-handednessFreely giving nature
munificence · largesse · big-heartedness · unselfishness · altruism · beneficence · charitableness · bountiful
Responsiveness to stimuli
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- receptivityWillingness to accept ideas
- rawnessUnrefined or exposed state
unguardedness · susceptibility · impressionability · softness · fragility · innocence · trusting · thin-skinned
sympathy
Compassionate understanding of others
benevolence · solicitude · clemency · leniency · forgiveness · grace · soft-heartedness · humaneness · fellow-feeling · commiseration
affection
Warm emotional attachment
fondness · devotion · doting · attachment · adoration · cherishing · endearment · sweetness · lovingness · maternal
understanding
Mental comprehension of something
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
- rapportHarmonious mutual connection
- attunementHarmonious receptive connection
perceptiveness · intuition · connection · responsiveness · awareness · mindfulness · fellow-feeling · identification · resonance · insight
softness
Yielding to gentle pressure
- delicacyRefined sensitivity or rarity
- mildnessGentle, moderate quality
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
soothing · patience · tactfulness · carefulness · considerateness · meekness · lamblike · dovelike · soft-spoken · careful
giving
Transferring to another
- selflessnessPrioritizing others over oneself
- magnanimityGenerous, noble spirit
- liberalityGenerous spirit or giving
open-handedness · munificence · largesse · big-heartedness · unselfishness · altruism · beneficence · charitableness · bountiful · unstinting
sensitivity
Responsiveness to stimuli
- opennessQuality of being accessible
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- receptivityWillingness to accept ideas
rawness · unguardedness · susceptibility · impressionability · softness · fragility · innocence · trusting · thin-skinned · touchiness
- Heart compoundswarmhearted, coldhearted, kindhearted, wholehearted, halfhearted
- mercyclemency, compassion, forgiveness, leniency, lenience
tenderheartednesshardheartedness
Absence of pity
callousness · cold-heartedness · heartlessness · stoniness · insensitivity
tenderheartednesscruelty
Deliberate harm-causing disposition
mercilessness · unkindness · brutality · inhumanity · hard-heartedness
heart, tender, tenderness, tenderly, tender-heartedness, hearted, tendril, tenders, tendrils