Difference between Tender and Loving

What is the difference between Tender and Loving?

Tender as an adjective is sensitive or painful to be touched. while Loving as an adjective is who or that shows or show love.

Tender

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Sensitive or painful to be touched. Soft and easily chewed. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make tender or delicate; to weaken. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly. To offer, to give. To offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Someone who tends or waits on someone. A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel. A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships. A boat used for transportation between a ship and shore. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card. A formal offer to buy or sell something.

Example sentence: Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Loving

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action of the verb to love.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Who or that shows or show love.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

Example sentence: Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

We hope you now know whether to use Tender or Loving in your sentence.

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