| Main Entry: | benevolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | charity |
Synonyms: |
altruism, amity, comity, compassion, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, sympathy |
Antonyms: |
animosity, greediness, ill will, malevolence, meanness, selfishness, spite, unkindness |
| Concept: | Benevolence. |
| Category: | 2. Diffusive sympathetic affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy; unselfishness., good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness; loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy; goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love; friendship., toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy (pity)., charitableness; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, "the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]., acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment., good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant; altruist.
-verbs
be benevolent; have one's heart in the right place, bear good will; wish well, wish Godspeed; view with an eye of favor, regard with an eye of favor; take in good part; take an interest in, feel an interest in; be interested in, feel interested in; sympathize with, feel for; fraternize (be friendly)., enter into the feelings of others, do as you would be done by, meet halfway., treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit (goodness); render a service, be of use; aid.
-adjectives
benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored., warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted; merciful; charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant; bounteous, bountiful., good-natured, well-natured; spleenless; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant (courteous); well-meant, well-intentioned., fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly; paternal, maternal, fraternal; sororal; friendly.
-adverbs
with a good intention, with the best intentions.
-phrases
"act a charity sometimes" [Lamb]; "a tender heart, a will inflexible" [Longfellow]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; "kind words are more than coronets" [Tennyson]; quando amigo pide no hay mañana; "the social smile, the sympathetic tear"
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Antonyms: |
malevolence |
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| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
Synonyms: |
advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
Antonyms: |
blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | altruism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unselfish concern |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, charity, humanitarianism, kindness, magnanimity, philanthropy, public spirit, selflessness, social conscience |
| Main Entry: | amity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
Synonyms: |
amicableness, benevolence, comity, concord, cordiality, friendliness, good vibrations, goodwill, harmony, hitting it off, kindliness, neighborliness, same wavelength, simpatico, togetherness |
Antonyms: |
discord, dislike, hatred, hostility |
| Main Entry: | boon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
benefaction, benefit, benevolence, blessing, break, compliment, donation, favor, gift, godsend, good, good fortune, grant, gratuity, help, largess, present, windfall |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
Synonyms: |
affection, agape, altruism, amity, attachment, benevolence, benignity, bountifulness, bounty, caritas, clemency, fellow feeling, generosity, goodness, goodwill, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, lenity, love, magnanimity, mercy, tenderheartedness |
Antonyms: |
malevolence, uncharitableness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
Synonyms: |
benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning |
Antonyms: |
cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, mercilessness, tyranny |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favor, indulgence |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, benevolence, bounty, charity, chivalry, compassion, consent, consideration, dispensation, generosity, kindness, liberality, service, unselfishness |
Antonyms: |
discourtesy, disfavor, disregard |
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good turn, good will, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, obligement, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token |
Antonyms: |
disapproval, disfavor |