Softness rhymes with:
swiftness, abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, appropriateness, astuteness, bluntness, brightness, compactness, completeness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, faintness, fastness, fitness, flatness, forthrightness, gauntness, greatness, hartness, inertness, jointness, lateness, lightfastness, lightness, neatness, politeness, quietness, remoteness, rightness, robustness, separateness, shortness, steadfastness, stoutness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tightness, unpleasantness, vastness, wetness, whiteness, witness, witness'
Softness sounds like:
septimus, shafting, shifting, sifting, softening, softens, softimage, speeding, spitting, spotting, spouting, sputnik, sputniks, subatomic, subduing, subotnick, swiftness