softness
/ˈsɔftnəs/
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softness noun: the quality of being soft.
Noun
softness (usually uncountable, plural softnesses)
- The quality of being soft.
- […] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]1882, The Pall Mall Budget, page 9
- Synonyms:
- flaccidity, mollitude
softness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
softness in Hindi
- the quality of being soft
- कोमलता komaltā, मृदुलता mŕdultā, मृदुता mŕdutā, मार्दव mārdav
softness in Tamil
- மென்மை
softness in Marathi
- मऊपणा
softness in Urdu
- the quality of being soft
- نَرْمی narmī
More languagesFewer languages
- softness in Bengali
- মৃদুতা mriduta
- softness in Telugu
- కోమలత్వం kōmalatvaṁ, మెత్తన mettana
- softness in Malayalam
- മൃദുത്വം mr̥dutvaṁ
- softness in Kannada
- ಮೆತ್ತಗೆ, ಮೆತ್ತಿಗೆ, ಮೃದು, ಮೃದುತ್ವ
- softness in Punjabi
- ਨਰਮਾਈ
- softness in Gujarati
- કોમળતા komaḷtā, નમ્રતા namratā, નરમી narmī, નરમાશ narmāś
- softness in Sanskrit
- मृदु mṛdú, मार्दव mārdava
- softness in Nepali
- कोमलता, कोमलताको
- softness in Arabic
- نُعُومَة nuʕūma
Examples of softness in a sentence
- I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting.
- “This flesh, almost a cream cheesy richness, a beckoning softness incarnate.”
- Nay, she must be stedfast, even though false security had betrayed her hidden softness.
Synonyms of softness
Antonyms
Forms of softness
| plural | softnesses |
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Origin of softness
From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.
Questions about softness
- What does softness mean?
- Softness means the quality of being soft.
- What is softness in Hindi?
- Softness in Hindi is कोमलता (komaltā), मृदुलता (mŕdultā), मृदुता (mŕdutā). See Softness meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is softness?
- Softness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce softness?
- Softness is pronounced /ˈsɔftnəs/ (US).
- What is the plural of softness?
- The plural of softness is softnesses.
Words near softness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: softness (page history and authors); softness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); softness (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); মৃদুতা (Bengali) (page history and authors); softness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); softness (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); मार्दव (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); softness (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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