Sore head getting gentle treatment (10)
I believe the answer is:
tenderness
'gentle treatment' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both human attributes as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'sore head getting' is the wordplay.
'sore' becomes 'tender' (synonyms).
'head' becomes 'ness' (type of geographical point).
'getting' says to put letters next to each other.
'tender'+'ness'='TENDERNESS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tenderness that I've seen before include "Compassion" , "Heart" , "sore?" , "Gentleness, sensitivity" , "Gentle quality" .)