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# tenderness

«tenderness» in Mova's school dictionary: **gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural in use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tenderness is gentle love and kindness, softness of feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenderness/#m1)

2) Tenderness can mean soreness of the body when touched. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenderness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

love felt by a sister, mother or wife for those she cares about

### examples

- She felt great tenderness for her brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenderness/#x1)
- My arm has a tenderness after the fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenderness/#x2)
- He spoke to her with tenderness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenderness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tenderness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tenderness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.