| Main Entry: | responsiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | openness |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, broad-mindedness, impartiality, interest, observance, open-mindedness, receptiveness, receptivity, tolerance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | cooperation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutual effort |
Synonyms: |
aid, alliance, assistance, cahoots, coaction, coadjuvancy, coalition, collaboration, combination, combined effort, communion, company, concert, concurrence, confederacy, confederation, confunction, conspiracy, doing business with, esprit de corps, federation, fusion, give-and-take, harmony, help, helpfulness, logrolling, participation, partisanship, partnership, playing ball, reciprocity, responsiveness, service, society, symbiosis, synergism, synergy, teaming, teamwork, unanimity, union, unity |
| Notes: | cooperation is always positive, collaboration is positive except in wartime (working with the enemy), and collusion is always negative (working together in secret for a dishonest purpose) |
Antonyms: |
blockage, delay, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, obstruction, prevention, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
Synonyms: |
affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amenity, amiability, approbation, approval, earnestness, enjoyableness, favor, geniality, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, reciprocity, responsiveness, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, wholeheartedness |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | emotion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental state |
Synonyms: |
affect, affection, affectivity, agitation, anger, ardor, commotion, concern, desire, despair, despondency, disturbance, drive, ecstasy, elation, empathy, excitability, excitement, feeling, fervor, grief, gut reaction, happiness, inspiration, joy, love, melancholy, passion, perturbation, pride, rage, remorse, responsiveness, sadness, satisfaction, sensation, sensibility, sensitiveness, sentiment, shame, sorrow, sympathy, thrill, tremor, vehemence, vibes, warmth, zeal |
Antonyms: |
physicality |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
Synonyms: |
affinity, appreciation, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, picking up on, pity, rapport, recognition, responsiveness, soul, sympathy, warmth |
Antonyms: |
apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sensation, especially of touch |
Synonyms: |
activity, awareness, consciousness, enjoyment, excitability, excitation, excitement, feel, innervation, motility, motor response, pain, perceiving, perception, pleasure, reaction, receptivity, reflex, responsiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, tactility, tangibility, titillation |
Antonyms: |
insensibility, numbness, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mercy, forgiveness |
Synonyms: |
benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, caritas, charity, clemency, compassion, compassionateness, favor, forbearance, generosity, good will, goodness, indulgence, kindliness, kindness, leniency, lenity, love, pardon, quarter, reprieve, responsiveness, tenderness |
Antonyms: |
mercilessness, unforgiveness |
| Main Entry: | gratitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appreciation |
Synonyms: |
acknowledgment, appreciativeness, grace, gratefulness, honor, indebtedness, obligation, praise, recognition, requital, response, responsiveness, sense of obligation, thankfulness, thanks, thanksgiving |
Antonyms: |
ingratitude, thanklessness |
| Main Entry: | sympathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shared feeling |
Synonyms: |
accord, affinity, agreement, alliance, attraction, benignancy, close relation, commiseration, compassion, concord, congeniality, connection, correspondence, empathy, feelings, fellow feeling, harmony, heart, kindliness, kindness, mutual attraction, mutual fondness, rapport, responsiveness, sensitivity, tenderness, understanding, union, unity, warmheartedness, warmth |
Antonyms: |
disdain, incompatibility, indifference |
| Main Entry: | fellow feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sympathy |
Synonyms: |
Christian love, agape, brotherly love, concern, empathy, good feeling, identification, loving concern, rapport, relating, responsiveness, sympathetic response, vibes, warmth |