A tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling.

Roget 822: sensibility, sensibleness, sensitiveness; moral sensibility; impressibility, affectibility^†; susceptibleness, susceptibility, susceptivity^†; mobility; vivacity, vivaciousness; tenderness, softness; sentimental, sentimentality; sentimentalism.    excitability etc. 825; fastidiousness etc. 868; physical sensibility etc. 375.    sore point, sore place; where the shoe pinches.    ... show more

Roget 914: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency etc. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long-suffering.    melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae [Lat.].    sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.    ... show more

Roget 906: benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy etc. 910; unselfishness etc. 942.    good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness etc. adj.; loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy; goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love etc. 897; friendship etc. 888.    toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy etc. (pity) 914.    charitableness etc. adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]. acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment.    good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant [Fr.]; altruist.    ... show more

Dutch: vertedering
Polish: tkliwość

A pain that is felt (as when the area is touched):
— The best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness.

synonyms: rawness, soreness.

Warm compassionate feelings.

synonym: tenderheartedness.

Dutch: vertedering
Polish: czułość, tkliwość

A positive feeling of liking.

synonyms: affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, warmheartedness, warmness.

Roget 897: love; fondness etc. adj.; liking; inclination etc. (desire) 865; regard, dilection^†, admiration, fancy.    affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness etc. adj.; heart, brotherly love; benevolence etc. 906; attachment.    yearning, eros, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry^†; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.    Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship etc. 902; amourette^†; free love.    maternal love, storge [Gr.], parental love; young love, puppy love.    attractiveness; popularity; favorite etc. 899.    lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret^†, beau, sweetheart, inamorato [It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman^†, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso^†, cavaliere servente [It], captive, cicisbeo^†; caro sposo [It].    inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa [It].    betrothed, affianced, fiancee.    flirt, coquette; amorette^†; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone^†.    ... show more

Dutch: genegenheid

A feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless).

synonym: softheartedness.

Polish: rozczulenie