soft-heartedness

See also: softheartedness

English

Etymology

soft-hearted +‎ -ness

Noun

soft-heartedness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of softheartedness
   • 1999, Юрий Дружников, Prisoner of Russia: Alexander Pushkin and the Political Uses of Nationalism, →ISBN, page 79:

     For his soft-heartedness, his forgiving and undemanding nature, the governor was called by the diminutive "Inzushko.

   • 2006, Ivan Turgenev, On the Eve, →ISBN, page 38:

     Her mother did not interfere with her; but her father used to be very indignant with his daughter, for her – as he called it – vulgar soft-heartedness, and declared there was not room to move for the cats and dogs in the house.