different between tenderness vs goodness

English

Etymology

tender +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?.n?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?n.d?.n?s/
• Hyphenation: ten?der?ness

Noun

tenderness (countable and uncountable, plural tendernesses)

1. a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings

   When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.

   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette

     I had known him jealous, suspicious; I had seen about him certain tendernesses, fitfulnesses—a softness which came like a warm air, and a ruth which passed like early dew, dried in the heat of his irritabilities: this was all I had seen.

2. concern for the feelings or welfare of others

   When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.

3. pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched

   He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English goodnesse, godnesse, from Old English g?dnes (“goodness; virtue; kindness”), equivalent to good +? -ness. Cognate with Old High German g?tnass?, c?tnass? (“goodness”), Middle High German guotnisse (“goodness”), Russian ???????? (godnost?, “suitability, fitness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???dn?s/, /???dn?s/

Noun

goodness (countable and uncountable, plural goodnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.
2. (countable) The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
3. (uncountable, euphemistic) God.

   Thank goodness that the war is over!

4. (Christianity) The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:goodness

Derived terms

• my goodness!

Translations

Further reading

• goodness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• goodness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• goodness at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• dog's nose