Pain vs. Tenderness: What's the Difference?
Pain and Tenderness Definitions
Pain
An unpleasant feeling occurring as a result of injury or disease, usually localized in some part of the body
Felt pains in his chest.
Tenderness
Easily crushed or bruised; fragile
A tender petal.
Pain
Bodily suffering characterized by such feelings
Drugs to treat pain.
Tenderness
Easily chewed or cut
Tender beef.
Pain
Mental or emotional suffering; distress.
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Tenderness
Young and vulnerable
Of tender age.
Pain
An instance of this
The pains of humiliation.
Tenderness
Frail; delicate.
Pain
Pains The pangs of childbirth.
Tenderness
Sensitive to frost or severe cold; not hardy
Tender green shoots.
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Pain
Pains Great care or effort
Taking pains with one's work.
Tenderness
Easily hurt; sensitive
Tender skin.
Pain
(Informal) A source of annoyance; a nuisance
Stuffing all these envelopes is a real pain.
Tenderness
Painful; sore
A tender tooth.
Pain
To cause physical pain to; hurt
My feet really pained me after the hike.
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Tenderness
Considerate and protective; solicitous
A tender mother.
His tender concern.
Pain
To cause mental or emotional distress to
"It pained him to remember every little thing about her" (John Irving).
Tenderness
Characterized by or expressing gentle emotions; loving
A tender glance.
A tender ballad.
Pain
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
Tenderness
Given to sympathy or sentimentality; soft
A tender heart.
Pain
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
Tenderness
(Nautical) Likely to heel easily under sail; crank.
Pain
An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
Tenderness
To make tender.
Pain
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
Tenderness
A strip of meat, usually chicken, often breaded, deep-fried, and served with a sauce.
Pain
Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Tenderness
A tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.
Pain
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
Gammon pain; Spanish pain
Tenderness
Concern for the feelings or welfare of others
When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.
Everybody needs a little tenderness sometimes.
Pain
(transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
The wound pained him.
Tenderness
Pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.
Pain
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
Tenderness
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Pain
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Tenderness
A tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
Pain
To feel pain; to hurt.
Please help me, I am paining hard.
Tenderness
A pain that is felt when the area is touched
Pain
Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
We will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him.
Interpose, on pain of my displeasure.
None shall presume to fly, under pain of death.
Tenderness
Warm compassionate feelings
Pain
Any uneasy sensation in animal bodies, from slight uneasiness to extreme distress or torture, proceeding from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; bodily distress; bodily suffering; an ache; a smart.
Tenderness
A positive feeling of liking;
He had trouble expressing the affection he felt
The child won everyone's heart
Pain
Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth.
She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her.
Tenderness
A feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
Pain
Uneasiness of mind; mental distress; disquietude; anxiety; grief; solicitude; anguish. Also called mental pain.
In rapture as in pain.
Pain
See Pains, labor, effort.
Pain
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Pain
To put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture; as, his dinner or his wound pained him; his stomach pained him.
Excess of cold, as well as heat, pains us.
Pain
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve; as, a child's faults pain his parents.
I am pained at my very heart.
Pain
A symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;
The patient developed severe pain and distension
Pain
Emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;
The pain of loneliness
Pain
A somatic sensation of acute discomfort;
As the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to pain
Pain
A bothersome annoying person;
That kid is a terrible pain
Pain
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;
Washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer
A bit of a bother
He's not a friend, he's an infliction
Pain
Cause bodily suffering to
Pain
Cause emotional anguish or make miserable;
It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
