tenderness(GENTLE)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Friendly
affability
affable
affably
affiliative
agreeableness
congeniality
conversable
convivial
conviviality
convivially
harmony
hospitable
hospitably
hospitality
sociality
socially
sugar and spiceidiom
sweet-natured
sweet-tempered
the human touch

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Excitement, interest, energy and enthusiasm

Examples of warmth

warmth
The warmth rating was an evaluation of positive affect directed toward the child.
Maternal warmth as a protective factor against risks associated with peer rejection among children.
In cluster 3, the affected twin reported less paternal warmth and much higher levels of maternal authoritarianism than her unaffected twin.
The ambiguous warmth of patronage existed uneasily with the profound desire to become patrons.
Three indicators were developed based on confirmatory as well as exploratory factor analyses: warmth/support, aversive behavior, and disciplinary skills.
In combination with instruments being made from natural materials, the resulting sound of the instruments is generally characterised by warmth and delicacy.
Conversely, high levels of warmth in relatives were associated with them making fewer attributions of control.
This type of atrium may be beneficial in creating a psychological warmth effect particularly in the winter of a northern climate.
The company's fluent acting, comic ingenuity, clarity of diction, unaffected style of vocal ensemble and communicative warmth have repeatedly been praised.
This is like warmth blocking synonymous *warmness, except that the blocked item in the relationship may be a syntactic unit.
Like a natural phenomenon, such as the air to breathe or the sun for warmth, healthcare is there to provide treatment.
Many of these particular memories were about the functions and abilities of music in creating warmth, partnership, community, getting attention and in-uencing moods.
The subscales are named warmth, disciplinary warmth, power assertion, possessiveness, and personal relationship.
Home visitors have a challenging role, requiring personal warmth, problem-solving and organizational skills, and crisis management abilities, and must work alone and with challenging recipients.
Family conflict would put youth on the path to negative peers and family warmth to positive peers.
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