Tear
Tear, tears or tearing may refer to:
- Tearing, the act of breaking apart a material by force
 - Tears, a clear liquid secreted by the tear gland in the eyes of land mammals
 
Arts and entertainment
Literature
- "Tears", a poem by Edward Thomas
 - "Tears", a poem by Walt Whitman
 
Music
Performers
- The Tears, an English rock band
 - Tears (Danish band), a jazz-rock group
 
Albums
- Tears (The Crocodiles album), 1980
 - Tears (The Crüxshadows album), 2001
 - Tears (Paul Bley album), 1983
 - Tears, by Fumiya Fujii, 1996
 - Tears, by Joseph Williams, 2007
 - Love Yourself: Tear, by BTS, 2018
 
Songs
- "Tear", by Lotion from Full Isaac, 1993
 - "Tear", by Smashing Pumpkins from Adore, 1998
 - "Tear", by Red Hot Chili Peppers from By the Way, 2002
 
- "Tears" (Clean Bandit song), 2016
 - "Tears" (Fayray song), 2000
 - "Tears" (1930 song), by Frank Capano, made famous by Ken Dodd, 1965
 - "Tears" (Perrie Edwards song), 2024
 - "Tears" (Rush song), 1976
 - Tears (Tyla song), 2024
 - "Tears" (X Japan song), 1993
 - "Tears", by Aly & AJ from Insomniatic, 2007
 - "Tears", by Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek from Pop 2, 2017
 - "Tears", by Health from the Max Payne 3 soundtrack, 2012
 - "Tears", by Jisoo from Amortage, 2025
 - "Tears", by Macklemore from Ben, 2023
 - "Tears", by Rockell from Instant Pleasure, 2000
 - "Tears", by The Stone Roses from Second Coming, 1994
 - "Tears", by Tinie Tempah featuring Cleo Sol, 2007
 - "Tears", by Underground Solution featuring Colour Girl, 1998
 - "Tears!", by 5 Seconds of Summer from 5SOS5
 - "Tearz", by Wu-Tang Clan from Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), 1993
 - "Outro: Tear", by BTS from Love Yourself: Tear, 2018
 
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- Tear (scratch), a type of scratch used by turntablists
 - Tear (The Wheel of Time), a fictitious nation in the Wheel of Time series of fantasy novels
 - Tears (film), a 2000 South Korean film directed by Im Sang-soo
 - "Rei III", an episode of the television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, known in Japan as "Tears"
 
People
- Tear (surname)
 - Amanda Tears, Belgian drag queen
 
See also
- Rip and Tear (disambiguation)
 - Tare (disambiguation)
 - Screen tearing, a visual display artifact
 - Data races, called "torn reads" or "torn writes"
 - Tearfund, a British charity
 - Tears for Fears, an English pop rock band
 - Tear sheet, a proof of publication used in advertising