Pain vs. Tenderness
Difference Between Pain and Tenderness
Painnoun
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.Tendernessnoun
a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
When the lovers were together, their cold indifference gave way to love and tenderness.Painnoun
(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.Tendernessnoun
concern for the feelings or welfare of others
When they saw the poor orphans, they were overwhelmed with tenderness for them.Painnoun
An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.Tendernessnoun
pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
He noted her extreme tenderness when he touched the bruise on her thigh.Painnoun
Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.Tendernessnoun
a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
Painnoun
Labour; effort; pains.
Tendernessnoun
a pain that is felt when the area is touched
Painnoun
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
gammon pain; Spanish painTendernessnoun
warm compassionate feelings
Painverb
(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.Tendernessnoun
a positive feeling of liking;
he had trouble expressing the affection he feltthe child won everyone's heartPainverb
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.Tendernessnoun
a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
Painverb
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Painnoun
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder;
the patient developed severe pain and distensionPainnoun
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid;
the pain of lonelinessPainnoun
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort;
as the intensity increased the sensation changed from tickle to painPainnoun
a bothersome annoying person;
that kid is a terrible painPainnoun
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness;
washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washera bit of a botherhe's not a friend, he's an inflictionPainverb
cause bodily suffering to
Painverb
cause emotional anguish or make miserable;
It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school
