"Tenderness" is a song by the English new wave band General Public, released as a single in May 1984 by I.R.S. Records from their debut studio album All the Rage (1984).
The song's lyrics tell about a man who really needs tenderness to feel like a man. It was one of the band's first singles. The single cover of the extended versions has a sentence reading "words like conviction can turn into a sentence".