n. 25B6; noun
I felt an enormous tenderness for her : AFFECTION, fondness, love, devotion, loving kindness, emotion, sentiment.
with unexpected tenderness, he told her what had happened : KINDNESS, kindliness, kind-heartedness, tender-heartedness, compassion, care, concern, sympathy, warmth, fatherliness, motherliness, gentleness, benevolence, generosity.
abdominal tenderness : SORENESS, pain, inflammation, bruising; ache, aching, smarting, throbbing.