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Definition of Tenderness
Tenderness

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

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Tenderness Quotations

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
Jane Austen

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
Alfred Hitchcock

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
Victor Hugo

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
Victor Hugo

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
Marlene Dietrich

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
William James

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
George Eliot

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot

Tenderness Translations

tenderness in Dutch is delicaatheid, fijnheid, kiesheid
tenderness in French is tendresse
tenderness in Spanish is terneza, ternura


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