goodness

The word “goodness” has 2 syllables: good-ness

It's pronounced as /ˈɡʊd.nəs/


What is synonym and antonym for goodness?

In the thesaurus, “goodness” has 53 synonyms and 33 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for goodness along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for goodness

  • advantage
  • appropriateness
  • beneficence
  • benefit
  • benevolence
  • character
  • correctness
  • decency
  • decorousness
  • decorum
  • ethicality
  • ethics
  • etiquette
  • fitness
  • friendliness
  • generosity
  • good will
  • grace
  • graciousness
  • high-mindedness
  • honesty
  • honor
  • humaneness
  • incorruptibility
  • integrity
  • irreproachability
  • irreproachableness
  • kindheartedness
  • kindliness
  • kindness
  • mercy
  • merit
  • morality
  • morals
  • nourishment
  • obligingness
  • probity
  • propriety
  • quality
  • rectitude
  • right-mindedness
  • righteousness
  • rightness
  • scrupulosity
  • scrupulousness
  • seemliness
  • superiority
  • uprightness
  • value
  • virtue
  • virtuousness
  • wholesomeness
  • worth

Antonyms for goodness

  • badness
  • corruption
  • crookedness
  • cruelty
  • debauchery
  • degeneracy
  • degradation
  • depravity
  • disadvantage
  • dishonesty
  • dishonor
  • evil
  • evildoing
  • hindrance
  • immorality
  • impropriety
  • indecency
  • indecorum
  • indiscretion
  • iniquity
  • loss
  • lowness
  • meanness
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • viciousness
  • vileness
  • villainy
  • wickedness

Meanings of goodness

  • noun
    1. The state or characteristic of being good.
    2. The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
    3. God.
    4. The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.

Example Sentences

  • The goodness of her heart was evident in her actions.
  • They praised the natural goodness of the fresh vegetables from the farm.
  • He believed in the inherent goodness of humanity.
  • The chocolate's rich goodness made it impossible to resist.
  • For goodness' sake, please clean up your room!

On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to goodness, such as: advantage, appropriateness, badness, beneficence, benefit, benevolence, character.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

largesse

  • all heart
  • allowance
  • alms
  • alms-giving
  • altruism
  • assistance
  • award
  • benefaction
  • beneficence
  • benefit
  • benevolence
  • bequest
  • bestowal
  • big-heartedness
  • bigheartedness
  • bonus
  • boon
  • bounteousness
  • bountifulness
  • bounty
  • box
  • care package
  • charitableness
  • charity
  • comp
  • contribution
  • courtesy
  • dispensation
  • dissipating
  • dole
  • donation
  • donative
  • dowry
  • endowment
  • extravagance
  • fairing
  • favor
  • foy
  • free giving
  • freebee
  • freebie
  • freehandedness
  • fringe benefit
  • fund
  • generosity
  • generousness
  • gift
  • gifting
  • giveaway
  • goodie
  • goodness
  • grant
  • gratuity
  • grease palm
  • great-heartedness
  • hand
  • hand-me-down
  • handout
  • handsel
  • heart
  • helping hand
  • high-mindedness
  • honorarium
  • hospitality
  • improvidence
  • kindliness
  • kindness
  • lagniappe
  • large-heartedness
  • lavishness
  • legacy
  • libation
  • liberality
  • little something
  • magnanimity
  • magnanimousness
  • munificence
  • nobleness
  • oblation
  • offering
  • offertory
  • openhandedness
  • openheartedness
  • perk
  • perquisite
  • philanthropy
  • pittance
  • premium
  • present
  • presentation
  • prize
  • prodigality
  • profusion
  • propine
  • provision
  • ration
  • readiness
  • recompense
  • relief
  • remembrance
  • remittance
  • reward
  • sacrifice
  • salve
  • selflessness
  • souvenir
  • spendthrift
  • squandering
  • subscription
  • subsidy
  • sweetener
  • tax benefit
  • tax write-off
  • tip
  • tithe
  • token
  • tribute
  • unselfishness
  • unsparingness
  • valentine
  • wastefulness
  • windfall
  • write-off

acceptability

  • ability
  • abundance
  • account
  • adequacy
  • amplitude
  • appropriateness
  • approval
  • authority
  • bountifulness
  • character
  • copiousness
  • correctness
  • credit
  • dependability
  • distinction
  • eminence
  • esteem
  • estimation
  • excess
  • fame
  • favor
  • fitness
  • goodness
  • honor
  • influence
  • mark
  • name
  • notoriety
  • opinion
  • opulence
  • overabundance
  • oversupply
  • plenitude
  • plenteousness
  • plentifulness
  • plentitude
  • plenty
  • position
  • prestige
  • privilege
  • prominence
  • properness
  • qualification
  • rank
  • regard
  • reliability
  • renown
  • rep
  • report
  • repute
  • respectability
  • rightness
  • satisfactoriness
  • seemliness
  • standing
  • stature
  • sufficiency
  • suitability
  • suitableness
  • surfeit
  • surplus
  • tolerability
  • trustworthiness
  • weight

quarter

  • 25 cents
  • McMansion
  • RV
  • abode
  • accommodate
  • accommodations
  • affection
  • altruism
  • apartment
  • apartment house
  • area
  • assignment
  • backyard
  • barrack
  • barracks
  • barrio
  • bearing
  • belt
  • benevolence
  • bestow
  • billet
  • bivouac
  • board
  • boardinghouse
  • brief
  • bungalow
  • bunk
  • business
  • cabin
  • camp
  • canton
  • care
  • casita
  • castle
  • chalet
  • chamber
  • charge
  • charity
  • cleave
  • clemency
  • commiseration
  • compassion
  • condo
  • condominium
  • cottage
  • countryseat
  • cut
  • cut up
  • department
  • detail
  • devotion
  • diggings
  • direction
  • dismember
  • district
  • division
  • domain
  • domicile
  • domiciliate
  • dorm
  • dormitory
  • double-wide
  • duplex
  • dwelling
  • empathy
  • encamp
  • enclave
  • ensconce
  • entertain
  • establish
  • estate
  • farmhouse
  • favor
  • fireside
  • flat
  • flophouse
  • forbearance
  • fourth
  • generosity
  • gentleness
  • ghetto
  • goodness
  • goodwill
  • grace
  • grange
  • habitation
  • hacienda
  • hall
  • harbor
  • hearth
  • hearthstone
  • hermitage
  • home
  • homestead
  • hooch
  • hood
  • hootch
  • house
  • house trailer
  • houseboat
  • housing
  • hovel
  • humaneness
  • humanitarianism
  • hut
  • hutch
  • inner city
  • install
  • job
  • kindliness
  • kindness
  • lenience
  • leniency
  • lenity
  • locality
  • location
  • lodge
  • lodgement
  • lodging
  • lodging house
  • lodgment
  • love
  • magnanimity
  • manor
  • manor house
  • manse
  • mansion
  • meekness
  • mercifulness
  • mercy
  • mildness
  • mobile home
  • motor home
  • nabe
  • neck of the woods
  • neighborhood
  • nest
  • niceness
  • nobility
  • old town
  • one-fourth
  • operation
  • pad
  • palace
  • parsonage
  • part
  • penthouse
  • philanthropy
  • pity
  • place
  • point
  • portion
  • position
  • post
  • precinct
  • province
  • put up
  • quad
  • quadrant
  • quartern
  • ranch
  • ranch house
  • recreational vehicle
  • rectory
  • region
  • residence
  • residency
  • roof
  • room
  • rooming house
  • roost
  • salon
  • saltbox
  • section
  • sector
  • secure
  • semester
  • semi
  • settle
  • shack
  • shanty
  • shed
  • shelter
  • side
  • skid row
  • slum
  • softness
  • span
  • split level
  • spot
  • stable
  • station
  • stomping ground
  • suite
  • sympathy
  • take in
  • tenderness
  • tenement
  • tenement house
  • tent
  • term
  • territory
  • town house
  • townhome
  • tract house
  • trailer
  • triplex
  • turf
  • twenty-five cents
  • two bits
  • understanding
  • vicarage
  • villa
  • walk-up
  • ward
  • worship
  • zone
  • zoo

gamesmanship

  • action
  • angle
  • artfulness
  • artifice
  • bettering
  • bit
  • booby trap
  • brainchild
  • cageyness
  • caginess
  • canniness
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • child
  • competition
  • competitive advantage
  • competitive edge
  • con
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • crookery
  • cunning
  • cutthroat
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • design
  • device
  • deviousness
  • dirty pool
  • dirty tricks
  • dishonesty
  • dissimulation
  • dodge
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • fairness
  • fakery
  • feint
  • forthrightness
  • foxiness
  • gambit
  • game
  • game plan
  • gimmick
  • goodness
  • grift
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • hanky-panky
  • honesty
  • honor
  • honorableness
  • humbuggery
  • hypocrisy
  • imposture
  • insincerity
  • intrigue
  • jiggery-pokery
  • jugglery
  • layout
  • legerdemain
  • little game
  • maneuver
  • method
  • oiliness
  • one-upmanship
  • outfoxing
  • outsmarting
  • outwitting
  • pitch
  • plan
  • play
  • plot
  • plotting
  • ploy
  • pretext
  • principle
  • proposition
  • quackery
  • racket
  • righteousness
  • rivaling
  • ruse
  • scenario
  • scene
  • scheme
  • scheming
  • secrecy
  • setup
  • shadiness
  • sharpness
  • shift
  • shiftiness
  • shrewdness
  • sincerity
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • slant
  • slickness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • sneakiness
  • stall
  • stealth
  • story
  • subterfuge
  • switch
  • treachery
  • trickery
  • twist
  • underhandedness
  • virtue
  • wile
  • wiliness

magnanimity

  • affection
  • altruism
  • benevolence
  • bigheartedness
  • care
  • charity
  • chivalry
  • clemency
  • commiseration
  • compassion
  • devotion
  • empathy
  • favor
  • forbearance
  • generosity
  • gentleness
  • goodness
  • goodwill
  • grace
  • high-mindedness
  • humaneness
  • humanitarianism
  • kindliness
  • kindness
  • lenience
  • leniency
  • lenity
  • love
  • meekness
  • mercifulness
  • mercy
  • mildness
  • niceness
  • nobility
  • nobleness
  • philanthropy
  • pity
  • quarter
  • softness
  • sympathy
  • tenderness
  • understanding
  • worship

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