Synonyms and Antonyms of kindness
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an act of kind assistance
- what a kindness to allow us to use your car for the funeral
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the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune
- out of the kindness of your heart, would you at least consider adopting this stray cat?
bigheartedness, charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, good-heartedness, heart, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, largeheartedness, mercy, pity, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, warmheartedness
feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity
affection, love, regard
affinity, empathy, rapport
altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy
3
sympathetic concern for the well-being of others
- with touching kindness, the couple offered the stranded tourists a place to stay for the night
beneficence, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, compassionateness, good-heartedness, humaneness, kindheartedness, kindliness, softheartedness, tenderheartedness, tenderness, warmheartedness
attentiveness, considerateness, thoughtfulness
affability, friendliness, good-naturedness, good-temperedness, warmth
graciousness, niceness, pleasantness
clemency, leniency, mercifulness
patience, tolerance, understanding
altruism, charitableness, charity
generosity, greatheartedness, magnanimity, philanthropy, unselfishness
mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness
inconsiderateness, insensitivity, thoughtlessness
grimness, harshness, severity, sternness, toughness
hatefulness, malevolence, maliciousness, meanness, spitefulness, virulence, vitriol
barbarity, barbarousness, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, callousness, cold-bloodedness, cruelty, hard-heartedness, heartlessness, inhumanity, savageness, savagery, unfeelingness, unkindliness, unkindness
