Kindness
Kindness noun - The capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune.
Usage example: out of the kindness of your heart, would you at least consider adopting this stray cat?
Sensitivity and kindness are semantically related in quality of being female topic. In some cases you can use "Sensitivity" instead a noun "Kindness".
Sensitivity
Sensitivity noun - The state or quality of being able to sense slight impressions or differences.
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Synonyms for Sensitivity
Kindness and sensitivity are semantically related in quality of being female topic. Sometimes you can use "Kindness" instead a noun "Sensitivity".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- love and kindness
- love and sensitivity
- feeling and kindness
- feeling and sensitivity
- affection and kindness
- affection and sensitivity
- benevolence and kindness
- benevolence and sensitivity
- compassion and kindness
- compassion and sensitivity
- sympathy and kindness
- sympathy and sensitivity
- humanity and kindness
- humanity and sensitivity
How words are described
| characteristic | characteristic kindness | characteristic sensitivity |
| human | human kindness | human sensitivity |
| gentle | gentle kindness | gentle sensitivity |
| natural | natural kindness | natural sensitivity |
| Other adjectives: mild, genuine, great, intense, remarkable, inner, inherent, incredible, apparent, greater, basic, surprising. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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When he and Ross are armwrestling, Monica says she loves his sensitivity and kindness not strength.
Source: Women Prefer Strong Men - Chief Daniels, with his usual human kindness and sensitivity, insists on bringing charges of child endangerment in a desperate attempt to draw fire from the police department.
Source: Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet! -
Comedian Bill Burr has a theory that men have a lower average life expectancy than women because of all the stress that builds up from their asshole "DudeBro" friends calling them "fag" any time they show any signs of caring, kindness or sensitivity.
Source: Real Men Hate Affection
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