Meaning of GOODNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'gûdnes
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- [n] moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people"
- [n] that which is good or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization"
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| | Synonyms: | | good |
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| | Antonyms: | | bad, badness, evil, evilness | | |
| | See Also: | | beneficence, benefit, benignancy, benignity, better, desirability, desirableness, graciousness, kindness, moral excellence, morality, optimum, quality, saintliness, soundness, summum bonum, virtue, virtuousness, welfare, wisdom, wiseness, worthiness | |
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| | Definition: | | Goodness
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Good"ness\, n. [AS. g?dnes.]
The quality of being good in any of its various senses;
excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness
of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of
disposition, of conduct, etc.
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| | Definition: | | in man is not a mere passive quality, but the deliberate preference of right to wrong, the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil, and the choosing and following of all moral good. |
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| | Related Terms: | | affability, affectionateness, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, amicability, angelicalness, appropriateness, assured probity, beauty of holiness, beneficialness, benignancy, benignity, blamelessness, bliss, blissfulness, brotherhood, character, Christianity, Christlikeness, Christliness, cleanness, compassion, compatibility, complaisance, congeniality, cordiality, correctitude, correctness, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, delectability, deliciousness, enjoyableness, erectness, estimableness, fairness, fear of God, feeling of kinship, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fine flavor, fitness, fittingness, flavorfulness, flavoriness, flavorousness, flavorsomeness, fraternal feeling, full flavor, geniality, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, good character, good flavor, good taste, goodliness, goodness of heart, gourmet quality, grace, graciousness, gustatory delightfulness, harmoniousness, healthfulness, healthiness, heart of gold, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, holiness, holy-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, humaneness, humanity, immaculacy, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindly disposition, kindness, loving kindness, lusciousness, mellifluousness, mellowness, merit, moral excellence, moral rectitude, moral strength, morale, morality, niceness, nobility, normality, normativeness, odor of sanctity, oh, otherworldliness, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, principles, probity, properness, proprieties, propriety, pureness, pureness of heart, purity, quality, rapport, rectitude, reputability, respectability, right conduct, right taste, righteousness, rightness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, salubriousness, salubrity, salutariness, sanctitude, sanctity, sapidity, savoriness, scrumptiousness, seemliness, seraphicalness, softheartedness, soul of kindness, spirituality, spiritual-mindedness, stainlessness, suitability, superiority, sweetness, sympathy, tastiness, tenderheartedness, toothsomeness, unearthliness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, unworldliness, uprightness, upstandingness, virtue, virtuousness, warmheartedness, warmth, warmth of heart, welcomeness, wholesomeness, worthiness |
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