Home › Words › S › softnesssoftness/ˈsɔftnəs/softness means the quality of being soft.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, softness ranks #1,714 of 42,747 for Qualifying.softness is pronounced /ˈsɔftnəs/.EtymologyFrom Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.nounThe quality of being soft.e.g.“[…] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]” — 1882, The Pall Mall Budget, page 9:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).