Word Meanings - GENTLENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

DOCILITY
1. teachableness; aptness for being taught; docibleness. 2. Willingness to be taught; tractableness. The humble docility of little children is, in the New Testament, represented as a necessary preparative to the reception of the Christian faith.
MILDNESS
The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
GENTLENESS
The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
MANSUETUDE
Tameness; gentleness; mildness.
TAMENESS
The quality or state of being tame.
INDOCILITY
The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect; unteachableness; intractableness. The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.