tenderness [
'tendәnis]
n. 柔软, 亲切, 柔和, 敏感, 易触痛
[医] 触痛
tenderness[ noun ]- a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
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- a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)
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the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness
after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on
- warm compassionate feelings
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- a positive feeling of liking
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he had trouble expressing the affection he felt
the child won everyone's heart
the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home
- a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
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Tenderness \Ten"der*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the
adjective).
Syn: Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness;
pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
- A different texture," he said. "You have to chew it a very long time." Cundiff and his colleagues, whose lab is at Clay Center, Neb., have worked to identify breeds or breed crosses that help improve tenderness while reducing fat.
- The picture is especially sly on the subject of romance and tenderness.
- My favourite was the 'Presentation in the Temple' from the Gulbenkian Museum, which shows Lochner's gift for tenderness and his original way with themes.
- There are, true, some light, singspiel-like moments in The Vampyr, but there are also scenes of tenderness and terror.
- Mr. Pilarski warns of its "frost tenderness.
- Her 1908 etching, Battlefield, is an image of human tenderness in the face of objective tragedy.
- The maxillary sinus cavity above the upper jaw has membranes that can be inflamed and swollen by infection, causing pain and tenderness in the upper jaw and teeth.
- We have a curiosity and also a tenderness about your country, because you have given us some many things: movies, theater, literature, music.
- Many of Williams' plays are said to reflect the special tenderness and concern he felt for his sister and others who are lonely or mentally disabled.
- It makes a travesty of the tenderness expressed in the Antique marble version of the group on loan from the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
- Acknowledging the reproductive aspects of sex, could not one, with equal possibility, argue that intercourse is natural and the female desire for tenderness is more a product of convention?
- Ray is saved, at least for the time being, by his elder brother Pete, the chef. The piece is a remarkable mixture of violence and tenderness.
- Salmon also are prized for their tenderness and flavor.
- The slightest wisp of melody sang; the briefest motif asserted itself. The late C Major Fantasy of Schubert opened with playing at the other extreme, a blissful calm, devoid of tension, long phrases floating on a soft breeze of tenderness.
- But in it, she gets to sing the most famous aria of the evening, "O mio bambino caro," which she did with sublime tenderness.
- But Ms. Parry, who is married to Mr. Brook, has both the requisite grand manner and the requisite tenderness to make Ranevskaya genuinely affecting.