" softheartedness "

1: the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune;

  * e.g., " ... the kind of softheartedness that makes him an easy target for anyone with a tale of woe "

•  Synonyms : 

•  bigheartedness,

•  charity,

•  commiseration,

•  compassion,

•  feeling,

•  good-heartedness,

•  heart,

•  humanity,

•  kindheartedness,

•  kindliness,

•  kindness,

•  largeheartedness,

•  mercy,

•  pity,

•  ruth,

•  sympathy,

•  warmheartedness

•  Antonyms : 

•  coldheartedness,

•  hard-heartedness,

•  inhumanity,

•  inhumanness,

•  mercilessness,

•  pitilessness

2: sympathetic concern for the well-being of others;

  * e.g., " ... the widow's naive softheartedness makes it hard for her to say "no" to charitable appeals "

•  Synonyms : 

•  beneficence,

•  benevolence,

•  benignancy,

•  benignity,

•  compassionateness,

•  good-heartedness,

•  humaneness,

•  kindheartedness,

•  kindliness,

•  kindness,

•  tenderheartedness,

•  tenderness,

•  warmheartedness

•  Antonyms : 

•  barbarity,

•  barbarousness,

•  bestiality,

•  brutality,

•  brutishness,

•  callousness,

•  cold-bloodedness,

•  cruelty,

•  hard-heartedness,

•  heartlessness,

•  inhumanity,

•  savageness,

•  savagery,

•  unfeelingness,

•  unkindliness,

•  unkindness

1: having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others;

  * e.g., " ... a softhearted person who never hesitates to help anyone in trouble "

•  Synonyms : 

•  beneficent,

•  benevolent,

•  benignant,

•  compassionate,

•  good-hearted,

•  humane,

•  kind,

•  kindhearted,

•  kindly,

•  sympathetic,

•  tender,

•  tenderhearted,

•  warmhearted

•  Antonyms : 

•  atrocious,

•  barbaric,

•  barbarous,

•  bestial,

•  brutal,

•  brute,

•  brutish,

•  callous,

•  cold-blooded,

•  cruel,

•  fiendish,

•  hard-hearted,

•  heartless,

•  inhuman,

•  inhumane,

•  insensate,

•  sadistic,

•  savage,

•  truculent,

•  uncompassionate,

•  unfeeling,

•  unkind,

•  unkindly,

•  unsympathetic,

•  vicious,

•  wanton