Word Meanings - BENIGNANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Benignant quality; kindliness.

QUALITY
1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
KINDLINESS
1. Natural inclination; natural course. Milton. 2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.
BENIGNANT
Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig"nant*ly, adv.
INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
EQUALITY
Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
COEQUALITY
The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.
UNKINDLINESS
Unkindness. Tennyson.