a.k.a. mildness, tenderness

Complementary virtues¶

• Often seems to be twinned with or even to be interchangeable with “meekness” in the Christian context, but I think of meekness as having a modest/humble/submissive component that gentleness doesn’t necessarily have.

Contrasting vices¶

• carelessness
• severity

Virtues possibly in tension¶

TBD

How to acquire or strengthen it¶

TBD

Notes and links¶

• 7 habits of gentle people
• Wikiversity: Gentleness

Mentioned elsewhere¶

• One of the virtues discussed in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Inspirational quotes¶

• “When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.” —George Eliot (Adam Bede)