Tenderness vs Tolerance - What's the difference?
tenderness | tolerance | Related terms |
a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
concern for the feelings or welfare of others
pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
(uncountable, obsolete) The ability to endure pain or hardship; endurance.
(uncountable) The ability or practice of tolerating; an acceptance or patience with the beliefs, opinions or practices of others; a lack of bigotry.
(uncountable) The ability of the body (or other organism) to resist the action of a poison, to cope with a dangerous drug or to survive infection by an organism.
(countable) The variation or deviation from a standard, especially the maximum permitted variation in an engineering measurement.
(uncountable) The ability of the body to accept a tissue graft without rejection.
Tenderness is a related term of tolerance.
As nouns the difference between tenderness and tolerance
is that tenderness is a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings while tolerance is tolerance.tenderness
English
Noun
(es)- When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness .
- When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
- He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.