softheartedness
- n a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)
- I inherited his height, his humor, his softheartedness, his love of walking and reading.
- Lawyer Morris undertook to show that Carter had a long-standing softheartedness toward Soviet Russia.
- Easily accessible in his NBC office, Trammell has a reputation for softheartedness, rarely fires a man until he has tried him on all kinds of assignments.