Definition of Softness

Softness

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

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Softness Quotations

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.
John F. Kennedy

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
Theodore Roosevelt

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.
Clare Boothe Luce

I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me.
Nicole Kidman

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
Faye Dunaway

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
John James Audubon

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

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Softness Translations

softness in Dutch is zachtheid, malsheid, weekheid
softness in French is laxisme
softness in German is Sanftheit, Nachgiebigkeit
softness in Spanish is deferencia

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