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charity - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generosity, gift |
| Synonyms: | alms, assistance, benefaction, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, hand*, helping hand, oblation, offering, philanthropy, relief, alms-giving, beneficence, gifting, hand-out, largesse, write-off |
| Antonyms: | stealing, taking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | affection, agape, altruism, amity, attachment, benevolence, bounty, clemency, fellow feeling, generosity, goodness, goodwill, grace, humanity, indulgence, love, magnanimity, mercy, benignity, bountifulness, caritas, humaneness, kindliness, lenity, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | malevolence, uncharitableness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | alms |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handout |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, benefaction, charity, contribution, dole, donation, offering |
| Main Entry: | altruism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unselfish concern |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, kindness, magnanimity, philanthropy, humanitarianism, public spirit, selflessness, social conscience |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, endurance, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, mercy, mildness, moderation, tenderness, tolerance, caritas, equitableness, justness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, soft-heartedness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humanity, kindness, mercy, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, yearning, humaneness, lenity, softheartedness, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, tyranny, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | contribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift, offering |
| Synonyms: | a hand, addition, alms, augmentation, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, charity, do one's part, donation, gifting, grant, handout, helping hand, improvement, increase, input, present, significant addition, subscription, supplement, write-off |
| Main Entry: | dole |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allowance, allocation |
| Synonyms: | allotment, alms, apportionment, benefit, charity, dispensation, distribution, division, donation, gift, grant, gratuity, handout, living wage, mite, modicum, parcel, pittance, portion, quota, relief, share, subsistence, trifle |
| Main Entry: | donation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift |
| Synonyms: | a hand, aid, allowance, alms, appropriation, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, bequest, boon, charity, contribution, do one's part, dole, endowment, gifting, grant, gratuity, handout, help, helping hand* largess, lump, offering, philanthropy, pittance, present, presentation, ration, relief, subscription, subsidy, subvention, write-off |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fairness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | candor, charity, civility, consideration, courtesy, decency, decorum, due, duty, equity, fair shake*, good faith, goodness, honesty, honor, humanity, impartiality, integrity, moderation, propriety, right, righteousness, suitability, tolerance, truth, uprightness, veracity, charitableness, disinterestedness, equitableness, exactitude, fair-mindedness, give and take, justness, legitimacy, open-mindedness, rationality, reasonableness, rightfulness, rightness, seemliness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | inequity, injustice, partiality, wrong, unfairness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, dispensation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, mercy, quarter, remission, reprieve, respite, vindication, condonation, exculpation, lenience, lenity, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quittance, remittal |
| Antonyms: | accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence |
| Main Entry: | generosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of giving |
| Synonyms: | altruism, benevolence, bounty, charity, goodness, heart, hospitality, kindness, magnanimity, philanthropy, profusion, readiness, unselfishness, all heart, alms-giving, beneficence, bounteousness, charitableness, free giving, high-mindedness, largesse, liberality, munificence, nobleness, openhandedness |
| Antonyms: | greed, meanness, selfishness, stinginess |
| Main Entry: | good will/goodwill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points*, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, helpfulness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity, good side of, right side of |
| Antonyms: | meanness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | allowance, gift |
| Synonyms: | admission, allocation, allotment, alms, appropriation, assistance, award, benefaction, bequest, boon, bounty, charity, concession, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fellowship, gratuity, handout, lump, present, privilege, reward, scholarship, stipend, subsidy |
| Antonyms: | forfeit, loss |
| Main Entry: | largess |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generosity |
| Synonyms: | aid, alms, altruistic, benefaction, benevolent, charitable, charity, donation, endowment, generous, gift, giving, philanthropy, thoughtful |
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | offering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | donation |
| Synonyms: | alms, atonement, charity, contribution, gift, oblation, present, sacrifice, subscription, bene-faction, beneficence, expiation |
| Antonyms: | withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | philanthropy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humanitarianism |
| Synonyms: | alms, altruism, assistance, benefaction, charity, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, generosity, helping hand, relief, alms-giving, beneficence, gifting, good works |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
| Synonyms: | advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fortitude, generosity, goodness, hope, ideal, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, uprightness, value, worth, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, fineness, good point, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, evil, vice, immorality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | good will |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindliness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benevolence, brownie points, charity, cordiality, favor, friendliness, friendship, generosity, good deed, goodwill, helpfulness, kindness, rapport, sympathy, tolerance, comity |
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