Synonyms for softness
Most common
gentleness tenderness mildness clemency effeminacy unmanliness fuzziness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Gentleness
gentleness, tenderness, mildness, clemency, lenity, leniency, lenience
2. Effeminacy
effeminacy, unmanliness, effeminateness, sissiness, womanishness
3. Fuzziness
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being soft.
Forms
- Plural
- softnesses → gentlenesses, tendernesses, mildnesses, clemencies…
Example sentences
- tenderness I looked at her and saw tenderness in her eyes.
- gentleness He had a gentleness that was attractive to women.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| softness | rising | |
| tenderness | rising | |
| gentleness | rising | |
| mildness | steady | |
| lenity | steady | |
| effeminacy | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- lenity
- 8 letters
- delicacy4, clemency3, leniency3, mildness, lenience
- 9 letters
- fuzziness, unfitness, fogginess, sissiness, balminess
- 10 letters
- tenderness3, gentleness3, effeminacy, blurriness, flaccidity, mellowness
- 11 letters
- unmanliness
- 12 letters
- womanishness
- 14 letters
- effeminateness, indistinctness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (delicacy4 = 4 syllables).