kindness

3 definitions found

kindness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Kindness \Kind"ness\, n. [From Kind. a.]
     1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various
        senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition
        beneficence.
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              I do fear thy nature;
              It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
              To catch the nearest way.             --Shak.
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              Unremembered acts
              Of kindness and of love.              --Wordsworth.
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     2. A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great
        kindness.
  
     Syn: Good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion;
          humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness;
          generosity; beneficence; favor.
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kindness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  kindness
      n 1: the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane
           and sympathetic [ant: unkindness]
      2: tendency to be kind and forgiving [syn: forgivingness,
         kindness]
      3: a kind act [syn: kindness, benignity]

kindness - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  129 Moby Thesaurus words for "kindness":
     accommodatingness, act of grace, act of kindness, advantageousness,
     affability, agreeableness, aid, amiability, amiableness,
     amicability, amicableness, amity, assistance, auspiciousness,
     benefaction, beneficence, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence,
     benignity, blessing, charitableness, charity, class, clemency,
     cogency, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, compliance,
     condolence, condonation, congeniality, consideration, cordiality,
     courtesy, decency, desert, dispensation, disregard, excellence,
     expedience, fairness, favor, favorableness, feeling, fineness,
     first-rateness, forbearance, forgiveness, forgivingness,
     friendliness, friendship, generosity, generousness, geniality,
     gentleness, good deed, good offices, good turn, goodliness,
     goodness, grace, graciosity, graciousness, healthiness,
     helpfulness, hospitality, humaneness, humanity, indulgence,
     kind deed, kind offices, kindliness, kindly act, labor of love,
     leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, love, magnanimity, mercy,
     merit, mitigation, mitzvah, neighborlikeness, neighborliness,
     niceness, obligation, obligingness, office, overlooking, pardon,
     pathos, patience, peaceableness, philanthropy, pity, pleasantness,
     profitableness, quality, quarter, relief, reprieve, rewardingness,
     ruth, self-pity, service, skillfulness, sociability, soundness,
     superiority, sympathy, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, turn,
     understanding, unhostility, unrevengefulness, usefulness, validity,
     value, virtue, virtuousness, warmth, well-affectedness, wholeness,
     worth