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| Main Entry: | kindliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benevolence |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, benefaction, beneficence, benignancy, benignity, charitableness, charity, compassion, favor, feeling, friendliness, friendship, generosity, gift, good will, goodness, goodwill, grace, humanity, kindheartedness, kindness, oblation, office, philanthropy, sympathy, comity |
| Main Entry: | amity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendship |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, concord, cordiality, friendliness, goodwill, harmony, togetherness, amicableness, comity, good vibrations, hitting it off, kindliness, neighborliness, same wavelength, simpatico |
| Antonyms: | discord, dislike, hatred, hostility |
| Main Entry: | fellowship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sociability, association |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alliance, amity, camaraderie, club, communion, companionship, company, conviviality, familiarity, friendliness, guild, intimacy, league, order, society, sodality, togetherness, affability, companionability, comradeship, kindliness |
| Main Entry: | friendliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionability |
| Synonyms: | amity, benevolence, camaraderie, conviviality, cordiality, friendship, geniality, goodwill, kindness, warmth, affability, amiability, comity, comradery, congeniality, kindliness, neighborliness, open arms, sociability |
| Antonyms: | incompatibility, aloofness, coldness |
| Main Entry: | geniality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme niceness |
| Synonyms: | amenity, cheerfulness, conviviality, cordiality, friendliness, gladness, good nature, happiness, jollity, joy, kindness, mirth, sweetness and light, warmth, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, cheeriness, congenialness, enjoyableness, good cheer, gratefulness, heartiness, joviality, joyousness, kindliness, pleasance, pleasantness, sunniness, warmheartedness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, irritation, unhappiness, aloofness, coldness, moodiness, unfriendliness |
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, benevolence, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, honesty, honor, integrity, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, worth, beneficence, ethicality, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, obligingness, rightness, wholesomeness |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| 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: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compassion, generosity |
| Synonyms: | affection, altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good will, goodness, grace, heart, helpfulness, hospitality, humanity, indulgence, magnanimity, mildness, patience, philanthropy, solicitude, sweetness, sympathy, tact, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness, amiability, beneficence, good intention, graciousness, kindliness, serviceability, solicitousness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, meanness |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of mercy toward another |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolence, dejection, distress, empathy, favor, forbearance, goodness, grace, humanity, kindness, melancholy, mercy, philanthropy, quarter, rue, ruth, sadness, solace, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, understanding, warmth, condolement, kindliness, lenity |
| Antonyms: | disdain, malevolence, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shared feeling |
| Synonyms: | accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, commiseration, compassion, concord, connection, correspondence, empathy, fellow feeling, harmony, heart, kindness, rapport, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, union, unity, warmth, benignancy, close relation, congeniality, feelings, kindliness, mutual attraction, mutual fondness, responsiveness, warmheartedness |
| Notes: | condolence and sympathy are parallel formations going back to Latin condolere and Greek sumpatheia, meaning 'together-suffering' empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person |
| Antonyms: | disdain, incompatibility, indifference |
| 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: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mercy, forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | benefaction, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, generosity, good will, goodness, indulgence, kindness, leniency, love, pardon, quarter, reprieve, tenderness, beneficence, caritas, compassionateness, kindliness, lenity, responsiveness |
| Antonyms: | mercilessness, unforgiveness |
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high regard |
| Synonyms: | awareness, concern, esteem, estimation, favor, forbearance, friendliness, heed, kindness, mercy, respect, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, tolerance, attentiveness, considerateness, heedfulness, kindliness, mindfulness |
| Antonyms: | disdain, disregard |
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