tenderness

Other forms of tenderness

plural

tendernesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tenderness

What does tenderness mean?

tenderness means "a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tenderness?

tenderness has 3 syllables: ten-der-ness. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /ˈtɛndɚnəs/.

What is another word for tenderness?

Close synonyms include soreness, rawness, tenderheartedness, affection, affectionateness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tenderness a common word?

tenderness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.