GOODWILL: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:			gûd'wil
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  a disposition to kindness and compassion; benign good will; "the victor's grace in treating the vanquished" [n]  the friendly hope that something will succeed [n]  (accounting) an intangible asset valued according to the advantage or reputation a business has acquired (over and above its tangible assets)
	Synonyms:		good will, good will, good will, grace
	See Also:		friendliness, good nature, intangible, intangible assets
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abetment, acquiescence, advocacy, aegis, agreeableness, alacrity, altruism, amenability, amity, an in, ardor, auspices, backing, beneficence, benevolence, benevolent disposition, benevolentness, Benthamism, bigheartedness, BOMFOG, brotherly love, care, caritas, championship, charitableness, charity, cheerful consent, Christian charity, Christian love, comity, compliance, consent, cooperativeness, countenance, custom, dispatch, docility, do-goodism, eagerness, encouragement, enthusiasm, expedition, favor, favorable disposition, favorable regard, favorableness, fellow feeling, flower power, forwardness, fosterage, friendliness, friendly relations, friendship, gameness, generosity, giving, good graces, good name, good terms, good understanding, grace, greatheartedness, guidance, harmony, helpfulness, humanitarianism, interest, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, love, love of mankind, mutual regard, patronage, philanthropism, philanthropy, pliability, pliancy, promptitude, promptness, rapport, readiness, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, regard, repute, respect, responsiveness, right mood, seconding, sponsorship, sympathy, tolerance, tractability, trade, tutelage, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, utilitarianism, welfarism, well-disposedness, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, zeal, zealousness