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A disposition to be lenient in judging others
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softness
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Word definitions for softness in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English softnes "ease, comfort; state of being soft to the touch; luxury;" see soft (adj.) + -ness . Meaning "weakness of character, effeminacy" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being soft.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of giving little resistance to pressure [ant: hardness ] a sound property that is free from loudness or stridency [ant: volume ] a disposition to be lenient in judging others; "softness is not something permitted of good leaders"
Usage examples of softness.
She grasped his shoulders then, moving her legs, reveling in the abrasive feel of his hair roughened skin against the softness of her thighs.
There is about Afy, in spite of all her softness and humility, a strange spirit, a cursed courage or obstinacy, which sometimes has blazed out, when I have over-galled her, in a way half-awful.
Il Frate, as a painter, is attributed great softness and harmony, and even majesty, though, like Fra Angelico, he was often deficient in strength.
Her heart pounded against his, her hips were warm beneath the thin material of her nightgown, and Benedict could feel their softness through his breeches.
His fattier had squandered the family fortune while gambling and departed the earth a few days after Brock uncovered his debts, while his mother had a softness of the mind and required expensive doctors.
She was a quiet, gray, dovelike woman, of an outer softness that masked a stubborn inner core.
Isabel was meek, and her pride was concealed by the outward softness and feminacy of her temper: but she stole away from those who had wounded her heart or trampled upon its feelings, and nourished with secret but passionate tears the memory of the harshness or injustice she had endured.
There were sore spots, but as yet no softness to indicate that the cranial sutures that had closed his babyhood fontanels, firming his skull into a rigid box of limited volume, were relaxing and opening up.
The people struck Kynes as a strange combination of softness and armed strength.
However, it had softness, comfort, as she leaned back in it, though feeling dwarfed by its huge size.
She used to follow him around, idolizing the very ground he walked on, and Haun in turn had treated Mei with a rare softness reserved for no one else.
She wraps her in the mohair blanket and Nalia cannot help it-- she cannot help the warmth around her body, the softness.
That kind of strength usually reflected inner strength, but he had been so deceived by her warmth, her softness, her motherliness, that he had not noticed it.
The softness in his voice brought her eyes back to him briefly before a swift new wave of color filled her cheeks.
And she knelt up and pressed against me, the incarnation of softness, and I turned and kissed her large and puckering mouth.