köken: From tendre + -esse. Compare Occitan and Catalan tendresa, Italian tenerezza, Aromanian tinireatsã, Old Sicilian tinirizza, Romanian tinerețe, Spanish and Portuguese terneza.
köken: From tierno + -eza. Compare Catalan tendresa, French tendresse, Italian tenerezza, Romanian tinerețe, Aromanian tinireatsã, Old Sicilian tinirizza.
köken: From tenero + -ezza. Compare Catalan tendresa, Aromanian tinireatsã, Old Sicilian tinirizza, French tendresse, Romanian tinerețe, Spanish and Portuguese terneza.
the -sa nominalization of 優しい (yasashii, “tender, kind”): kindness, tenderness (as an objective degree or amount)
köken: As a surface analysis, a compound of 優しい (yasashii, “kind, tender”) + さ (sa, noun-forming suffix used with adjectives to express objective degree or amount).