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tenderness

/tĕn′dər-nĭs/

柔情,温情,温柔,温和

Related Words

sympathy同情心,同情,共鸣,同情者kindness仁慈,善良,仁慈的,恩情gentleness温柔,温和,柔和,温柔度warmth温情,温暖,温馨提示,温暖性compassion怜悯之心,同情心,慈悲,怜悯sensitivity敏感性,敏感度,灵敏度,敏感goodness好的,好东西,好处,好事affection情感,爱心,情爱,情义love爱,爱情,爱心,爱意benevolence仁爱,仁爱之心,仁义,仁术courtesy礼貌,礼遇,礼节,礼节性fondness癖好,喜爱,恋情,喜好friendship友谊,友情,交情,友好softheartedness软心肠,柔情,柔情似水,温柔lovingness爱心,有爱,爱意,爱情weakness弱点,虚弱,弱势,虚弱性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
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Synonyms & Antonyms

nounaffection
Synonyms
gentleness温柔,温和,柔和,温柔度kindness仁慈,善良,仁慈的,恩情sympathy同情心,同情,共鸣,同情者warmth温情,温暖,温馨提示,温暖性benevolence仁爱,仁爱之心,仁义,仁术courtesy礼貌,礼遇,礼节,礼节性fondness癖好,喜爱,恋情,喜好friendship友谊,友情,交情,友好love爱,爱情,爱心,爱意lovingness爱心,有爱,爱意,爱情softheartedness软心肠,柔情,柔情似水,温柔
noungentleness
Synonyms
affection情感,爱心,情爱,情义compassion怜悯之心,同情心,慈悲,怜悯goodness好的,好东西,好处,好事kindness仁慈,善良,仁慈的,恩情sensitivity敏感性,敏感度,灵敏度,敏感sympathy同情心,同情,共鸣,同情者warmth温情,温暖,温馨提示,温暖性benevolence仁爱,仁爱之心,仁义,仁术love爱,爱情,爱心,爱意lovingness爱心,有爱,爱意,爱情weakness弱点,虚弱,弱势,虚弱性

Examples

  • Nevertheless, they love each other with a tenderness that drives them to despair over their 31 years of marriage.

  • More than anything else, teenagers seemed to swoon over tenderness and vulnerability that the Beatles expressed in their songs.

  • Their interlocked fingers are an expression of fear, not tenderness.

  • His music bled menace and lust, but also tenderness and vulnerability and an overpowering romantic lyricism.

  • The duo performs the classic “Try a Little Tenderness” at a depressing hotel bar.

  • Uncle Harry took him for walks and consoled him with rough tenderness, never calling him Black Sheep.

  • Her smile was strangely distant, strangely precious: she was love and tenderness incarnate; her little hands held both of his.

  • There was a caressing tenderness in her voice as she said it, but whether for himself or for another he could not tell.

  • Yet will not the heart be bereaved of its vision; it still sees a smile of tenderness in the universe.

  • For she called him 'Tommy'; she was his mother; love, tenderness, and pity emanated from her like a cloud of perfume.

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