Easily affected emotionally by other people's distress or by criticism.
心肠软的，慈悲的；没有主见的
the tender-minded neurotic swallows the whole theory
he wrote tolerantly of administrative massacres, no doubt to irritate the tender-minded
Example sentencesExamples
Your recent comment was uncharacteristically tender-minded.
Would you call yourself tough-minded or tender-minded?
Soft revolutionists are close to the tender-minded position of the rationalist.
All of this may give a certain amount of comfort to those who are tender-minded.
Derivatives
tender-mindedness
noun
Democrats do not have a monopoly on tender-mindedness in education.
Example sentencesExamples
In relation to bereavement and cemetery visitation, behavioural differences are linked to religiosity and the psychological personality trait of tender-mindedness.
Components of the agreeable personality include trust, straightforwardness, altruism, compliance, modesty, and tender-mindedness.
Surely if there is any room in our society for tender-mindedness, it would be here.
There seemed to be no tender-mindedness in Anderson's thinking.