Definition of "soft-heartedness" []

• The quality of being soft-hearted; tendency or disposition to be touched, or moved to sympathy; tenderness of heart; benevolence; gentleness. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "She also betrays a trace of her dad's soft-heartedness; recently, she left one of the freezers open, which happened to contain her beloved pet canary, Missy."
• "And it isn2t soft-heartedness on his part, some bygones-be-bygones kind of gibberish."
• "We're talking about self-idealized rugged individualism that can't stand bleeding-heart liberalism (soft-heartedness; weakness) and masks that loathing behind a criticism of a conveniently defined notion of coercion."