tenderness
/ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He picked her up in his arms with great tenderness."
- "When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness."
- "I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen."
- "Love me, try to be understanding / Tenderness is all that I'm asking / Don't feel like I'm making conditions / I want to overcome my inhibitions"
- "YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture."
- "When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɛn.dɚ.nɪs/
- British English: /ˈtɛn.də.nɪs/