Definition for Softness:

• The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Synonyms for Softness:

• n.

  •attribute (noun)
  • softness.
  •compassion (noun)
  • heart,
  • kindness,
  • charity,
  • humanity,
  • mercy,
  • tenderness,
  • sympathy.
  •consistency (noun)
  • bendablenesses,
  • viscousnesses,
  • bendabilities,
  • limbernesses,
  • frangibilities,
  • moldabilities.
  •delicacy (noun)
  • etherealnesses,
  • trans lucency,
  • trans lucencies,
  • airinesses,
  • trans-lucencies,
  • trans-lucency,
  • gossamerinesses,
  • diaphaneities,
  • slendernesses,
  • exquisitenesses.
  •fear (noun)
  • timidity.
  •feebleness (noun)
  • faintness,
  • flimsiness,
  • feebleness,
  • fragility,
  • powerlessness,
  • decrepitude,
  • frailness,
  • Sickliness,
  • weakness,
  • ailment,
  • ricketiness,
  • debilitation.
  •femininity (noun)
  • femineities,
  • feminalities,
  • womanlinesses.
  •impressibility (noun)
  • malleability,
  • pliability,
  • plasticity,
  • Malleableness.
  •mellowness (noun)
  • Impressibility.
  •mildness (noun)
  • easiness,
  • libertarianism,
  • forbearance,
  • latitude,
  • cordiality,
  • laxity,
  • liberality,
  • evenness,
  • open-mindedness,
  • geniality,
  • quietness,
  • liberalness,
  • broad-mindedness,
  • amiability,
  • peaceableness,
  • liberty,
  • benevolence,
  • tolerance,
  • meekness,
  • moderateness,
  • clemency,
  • moderation,
  • benignity,
  • lenience,
  • permissiveness,
  • acceptance,
  • insipidity.
  •moderation (noun)
  • composition,
  • pacification,
  • calming,
  • temperateness,
  • quiet,
  • ease,
  • restraint,
  • alleviation,
  • tranquility.
  •muliebrity (noun)
  • womenfolk,
  • womankind,
  • womenfolks.
  •quietness (noun)
  • lowness,
  • undertone,
  • mumble,
  • whisper.
  •sensitivity (noun)
  • schmaltz,
  • sloppiness,
  • lovesickness,
  • sentimentality,
  • fancifulness,
  • Sappiness,
  • sensitivity,
  • mawkishness.
  •softness (noun)
  • litheness,
  • pliancy,
  • mushiness,
  • tractability.
  •sound (noun)
  • sonorousness,
  • tonality,
  • sonority,
  • sonorities,
  • vibration,
  • statics,
  • Sonance,
  • loudness,
  • sonancy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • frailty.
  •
  • consistency.
  •limpness
  • flaccidity.

Paraphrases for Softness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    gentleness.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    flexibility.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Sweetness, smoothness, kindness, delicacy.

Antonyms for Softness:

• n.

  • attribute
    hardness, loudness.
  • compassion
    cruelty, meanness.
  • Other antonyms:
    goodness, backbone, morality, nerve, mettle, resoluteness, self-discipline, rectitude, firmness, integrity, rightness, fortitude, chutzpah, righteousness, strength, virtuousness, discipline, toughness, uprightness.

Softness Sentence Examples:

• The softness of his parting words to Mrs. Lake, " I'd go three mile out of my road, ma'am, to call on a lady like you," had hardly died away, when he woke the echoes of the plains by addressing his horse in a very different tone.

• She really thought it must be so, and this would account for the softness of this little bed, and the delicious purity of the beautiful room.

Homophones for Softness:

• softening, sapidness, spotting, spouting, spitting, subatomic, subtonic, sputnik, shifting, speeding, subheading, sifting, sea bathing, subduedness, sweptwing, Speediness, shiftiness, swiftness, soft news.

Hypernym for Softness:

• n.

  • attribute
    faintness, downiness, featheriness, diminuendo, decrescendo, flabbiness, squeezability, mushiness, fluffiness, sponginess, flaccidity, piano, pianissimo, compressibility, Pulpiness, limpness.

Hyponym for Softness:

• n.

  • attribute
    consistency, lenience, consistence, substance, leniency, indulgence, sound property, body, visual property.
  • state
    economic condition.