Meaning of KINDNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'kIndnis
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- [n] a kind act
- [n] tendency to be kind and forgiving
- [n] the quality of being warm-hearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic
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| | Synonyms: | | benignity, forgivingness |
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| | Antonyms: | | unkindness | | |
| | See Also: | | action, benefaction, benevolence, benevolence, considerateness, consideration, consideration, cupboard love, endearment, favor, favour, forgiveness, generosity, generousness, good, goodness, loving-kindness, mercifulness, mercy, pardon, thoughtfulness, thoughtfulness | |
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| | Definition: | | \Kind"ness\, n. [From {Kind}. a.]
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various
senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition
beneficence.
I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of
human kindness To catch the nearest way. --Shak.
Unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
--Wordsworth.
2. A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great
kindness.
Syn: Good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion;
humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness;
generosity; beneficence; favor.
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| | Related Terms: | | accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness, affability, agreeableness, aid, amiability, amiableness, amicability, amicableness, amity, assistance, auspiciousness, benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessing, charitableness, charity, class, clemency, cogency, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, compliance, condolence, condonation, congeniality, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, desert, dispensation, disregard, excellence, expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling, fineness, first-rateness, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness, friendliness, friendship, generosity, generousness, geniality, gentleness, good deed, good offices, good turn, goodliness, goodness, grace, graciosity, graciousness, healthiness, helpfulness, hospitality, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, labor of love, leniency, longanimity, long-suffering, love, magnanimity, mercy, merit, mitigation, mitzvah, neighborlikeness, neighborliness, niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, overlooking, pardon, pathos, patience, peaceableness, philanthropy, pity, pleasantness, profitableness, quality, quarter, relief, reprieve, rewardingness, ruth, self-pity, service, skillfulness, sociability, soundness, superiority, sympathy, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, turn, understanding, unhostility, unrevengefulness, usefulness, validity, value, virtue, virtuousness, warmth, well-affectedness, wholeness, worth |
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