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Etymology
From tender + hearted.
Adjective
tenderhearted (comparative more tenderhearted, superlative most tenderhearted)
- Compassionate for another's distress.
1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 , New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.
- Easily moved to love.
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