kindness

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 \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, n.  A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
    

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