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gentleness

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Main Entry: gentleness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intentional mildness

Synonyms:

carefulness, caution, kindness, tenderness
Main Entry: gentleness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: physical sensitivity

Synonyms:

delicacy, fragility, mildness, pliability, pliancy, smoothness, softness, sweetness, tenderness

Antonyms:

hardness, imperviousness, roughness
Main Entry: gentleness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: docility

Synonyms:

meekness, obedience, tameness
Main Entry: clemency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: forgiveness

Synonyms:

caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration

Antonyms:

no mercy
Main Entry: courtesy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: good manners

Synonyms:

address, affability, amenities, amiability, attentiveness, ceremony, chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration, cordiality, courteousness, courtliness, cultivation, culture, deference, elegance, familiarity, favor, friendliness, gallantness, gallantry, generosity, geniality, gentleness, good behavior, good breeding, graciousness, indulgence, kindness, polish, politeness, refinement, respect, reverence, solicitude, suavity, sympathy, tact, thoughtfulness, urbanity

Antonyms:

bad manners, discourtesy, impoliteness, pompousness, rudeness, unmannerliness
Main Entry: kindness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: compassion, generosity

Synonyms:

affection, altruism, amiability, beneficence, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good intention, good will, goodness, grace, graciousness, heart, helpfulness, hospitality, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, magnanimity, mildness, patience, philanthropy, serviceability, solicitousness, solicitude, sweetness, sympathy, tact, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness

Antonyms:

cruelty, harshness, meanness
Main Entry: mercy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: kindness, compassion

Synonyms:

benevolence, benignancy, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, kindliness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance

Antonyms:

cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion
Main Entry: morality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ethics, honesty

Synonyms:

chastity, conduct, decency, ethicality, ethicalness, gentleness, godliness, good habits, goodness, honor, ideals, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, saintliness, standards, uprightness, virtue, worthiness
Notes: morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality

Antonyms:

amorality, badness, corruption, dishonesty, evil, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness
Main Entry: refinement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cultivation, civilization

Synonyms:

affability, civility, courtesy, courtliness, delicacy, dignity, discrimination, elegance, enlightenment, erudition, fastidiousness, fine point, fine tuning, fineness, finesse, finish, gentility, gentleness, good breeding, good manners, grace, graciousness, knowledge, lore, nicety, nuance, polish, politeness, politesse, precision, sophistication, style, suavity, subtlety, tact, taste, urbanity

Antonyms:

bad manners, crudeness, rudeness
Main Entry: femininity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: girlishness

Synonyms:

delicacy, docility, effeminateness, feminality, femineity, feminineness, gentleness, kindness, muliebrity, softness, womanhood, womanliness

Antonyms:

maleness, masculinity
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