Word Meanings - KIND-HEARTEDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KIND-HEARTEDNESS)
- Benevolence
- Kindness
- goodwill
- charity
- philanthropy
- kindliness
- kind-heartedness
- benignity
- beneficence
- liberality
Related words: (words related to KIND-HEARTEDNESS)
- KINDNESS
1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts - KIND-HEARTEDNESS
The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence. - CHARITY
Now abideth faith, hope, charity, three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1. Cor. xiii. 13. They, at least, are little to be envied, in whose hearts the great charities . . . lie dead. Ruskin. With malice towards none, with charity for all. - BENEVOLENCE
1. The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers. 2. An act of kindness; good done; charity given. 3. A species - BENEFICENCE
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper. Syn. -- See Benevolence. - 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. - PHILANTHROPY
Love to mankind; benevolence toward the whole human family; universal good will; desire and readiness to do good to all men; -- opposed to misanthropy. Jer. Taylor. - LIBERALITY
1. The quality or state of being liberal; liberal disposition or practice; freedom from narrowness or prejudice; generosity; candor; charity. That liberality is but cast away Which makes us borrow what we can not pay. Denham. 2. A gift; a gratuity; - BENIGNITY
1. The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott. 2. Mildness; gentleness. The benignity or inclemency of the season. Spectator. 3. Salubrity; wholesome quality. Wiseman. - APHILANTHROPY
Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe. - UNCHARITY
Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster. - LOVING-KINDNESS
Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33. - INCHARITY
Want of charity. Evelyn. - UNBENEVOLENCE
Absence or want of benevolence; ill will. - THEOPHILANTHROPY
Theophilanthropism. Macaulay. - SELF-CHARITY
Self-love. Shak. - ILLIBERALITY
The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon. - DISKINDNESS
Unkindness; disservice. A. Tucker. - UNKINDLINESS
Unkindness. Tennyson.