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Softening   /sˈɔfənɪŋ/  /sˈɔfnɪŋ/   Listen
Softening

noun
1.
The process of becoming softer.  "He observed the softening of iron by heat"
adjective
1.
Having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin.  Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, salving.


Soften

verb
(past & past part. softened; pres. part. softening)
1.
Make (images or sounds) soft or softer.  Antonym: sharpen.
2.
Lessen in force or effect.  Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, weaken.  "Break a fall"
3.
Give in, as to influence or pressure.  Synonyms: relent, yield.  Antonym: stand.
4.
Protect from impact.  Synonyms: buffer, cushion.
5.
Make less severe or harsh.  Synonyms: mince, moderate.
6.
Make soft or softer.  Antonym: harden.
7.
Become soft or softer.  Antonym: harden.



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"Softening" Quotes from Famous Books



... three other young ladies that I know of. But to keep to the first-instanced one, I lend her my books, and give her, for what they are worth, my time and most careful teaching, because she at present paints butterflies better than any other girl I know, and has a peculiar capacity for the softening of plumes and finessing of antennae. Grant me to be a good teacher, and grant her disposition to be such as I suppose, and the result will be what might at first appear an indefensible iniquity, namely, ...
— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin
... it, the lost hopes that lay behind it, the touching pain of the stateliness wrecked. She had shown it in the way in which she tenderly looked from side to side, in the very lightness of her footfall, in the bluebell softening of her eyes. Oh, yes, she had understood and cared, American as she was! She had felt it all, even with her hideous background ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... The mare landed in softening snow, for the scathing flames were melting the drifts on either side. Betty had felt the rush of heat rising from the cables and had put her hat ...
— Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp • Alice B. Emerson
... to the cook. The tenseness had gone from his usually wiry little body; his eyes were milder; a curve was softening his mouth. Kneeling before the child, ...
— Life at High Tide - Harper's Novelettes • Various
... super-plane. Yet through these same centuries they had been busily engaged in the extermination of "weaklings," whom, by their very persecutions, they had turned into "super men," now rising in mighty wrath to destroy them; and in reducing themselves to the depths of softening vice and flabby moral fiber. Is it strange that they looked at me in amazed wonder when I laughed outright in the midst of some of ...
— The Airlords of Han • Philip Francis Nowlan


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