tenderness

/ˈtɛndərnəs/

意味: 優しさ、柔らかさ

例文: The tenderness in his eyes moved Lena.
　　  彼の目の優しさがレナを感動させた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: emotional tenderness(感情的な優しさ), physical tenderness(身体的な優しさ), tenderness of heart(心の優しさ)

定義: 優しさや思いやりを示す状態や感情。人や物に対して優しく接すること。身体的には、触れると痛みを感じる状態を指すこともあります。

tendernessは約600,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

Definitions(定義)

Noun: a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
Noun: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
Noun: warm compassionate feelings
Noun: a positive feeling of liking
Noun: a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun

Examples(例文)

Noun: the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness
Noun: after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on
Noun: he had trouble expressing the affection he felt
Noun: the child won everyone’s heart
Noun: the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, rawness, softheartedness, soreness, tenderheartedness, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): affectionateness, compassion, concern, feeling, pain

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ache, affect, affection, agitation, agony, ambivalence, apathy, arthralgia, astonishment, burn, calmness, causalgia, chest pain, chiralgia, colic, complex, desire, despair, devastation, dislike, distress, dysmenorrhea, emotion, enthusiasm, expectation, faintness, fearlessness, glossalgia, glow, gratitude, gravity, growing pains, happiness, heartstrings, hemorrhoid, hope, humility, ingratitude, keratalgia, labor pain, levity, liking, mastalgia, melagra, meralgia, mercifulness, metralgia, myalgia, nephralgia, neuralgia, odynophagia, orchidalgia, pain, pang, passion, photalgia, pleasure, pleurodynia, podalgia, pride, proctalgia, referred pain, renal colic, sadness, sensitivity, sentiment, sex, shame, smart, softheartedness, solicitude, soul, sting, stitch, sympathy, temper, tenderness, thermalgesia, thing, throb, torture, ulalgia, unconcern, urodynia, uxoriousness

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): attachment, chafe, chafing, protectiveness, rebound tenderness, regard, soft spot

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: affectionate, fond, hearty, raw, softhearted, sore, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: psychology

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: emotional

Grammatical Notes:

countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): ness

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

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Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes

Emotion Categories: joy, positive