• a tendency to express warm, compassionate, or affection
  Affection
  Affection or fondness is a "disposition or rare state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning: emotion ; disease; influence; state of being ; and state of mind...
  
  ate feelings
• delicate or intimate physical contact
• tenderness (medicine)
  Tenderness (medicine)
  In medicine, tenderness is pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched.Rebound tenderness is an indication of peritonitis....
  
   – pain
  Pain
  Pain is an unpleasant sensation often caused by intense or damaging stimuli such as stubbing a toe, burning a finger, putting iodine on a cut, and bumping the "funny bone."...
  
   or discomfort
  Discomfort
  Discomfort may refer to:* Pain, an unpleasant sensation* Suffering, an experience of unpleasantness...
  
   when an affected area is touched

Other

• "Tenderness (song)
  Tenderness (song)
  "Tenderness" is a song by General Public from their 1984 album All the Rage, produced by I.R.S. Records.-Content:The song's lyrics tell about a man who really needs tenderness to feel like a man. It was one of the band's first singles...
  
  ", a song by General Public
  General Public
  General Public were a band formed by The Beat vocalists, Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger, and which included former members of Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Specials and The Clash...
  
  
• Tenderness (film)
  Tenderness (film)
  Tenderness is a 2009 American crime film directed by John Polson, which stars Jon Foster, Sophie Traub, Russell Crowe, and Laura Dern. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Robert Cormier.-Plot:...
  
  , a 2009 film
• Tenderness
  Tenderness (album)
  Tenderness is a dark experimental [Latin Jazz meets Downtown Music] recording under the musical direction of Kip Hanrahan.-Track listing:#'...Faith In The Pants, Not In The Prick...' - 5:37...
  
  , an album by Kip Hanrahan
  Kip Hanrahan
  Kip Hanrahan is an American jazz music impresario, record producer and percussionist.-Biography:Hanrahan was born in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in the Bronx to an Irish-Jewish family. He has an unusual role in the albums released under his name, one which he has analogized to that of a film...