kindness

• accommodation
• advantage
• affability
• affection
• affinity
• aid
• alms
• altruism
• amiability
• assistance
• attentiveness
• benediction
• benefaction
• beneficence
• benefit
• benevolence
• benignancy
• benignity
• benison
• bigheartedness
• blessing
• boon
• boost
• bounty
• charitableness
• charity
• clemency
• commiseration
• compassion
• compassionateness
• considerateness
• consideration
• cordiality
• courtesy
• decency
• delicacy
• dispensation
• empathy
• favor
• feeling
• feelings
• fellow feeling
• forbearance
• friendliness
• generosity
• gentleness
• godsend
• good deed
• good intention
• good turn
• good will
• good-heartedness
• good-naturedness
• good-temperedness
• goodness
• goodwill
• grace
• graciousness
• greatheartedness
• heart
• help
• helpfulness
• hospitality
• humaneness
• humanism
• humanitarianism
• humanity
• indulgence
• kindheartedness
• kindliness
• largeheartedness
• leniency
• liberty
• licence
• license
• lift
• love
• magnanimity
• manna
• mercifulness
• mercy
• mildness
• niceness
• patience
• philanthropy
• pity
• pleasantness
• privilege
• rapport
• regard
• relief
• responsiveness
• ruth
• sensibility
• sensitivity
• service
• serviceability
• softheartedness
• solicitousness
• solicitude
• succor
• sweetness
• sympathy
• tact
• tenderheartedness
• tenderness
• thoughtfulness
• tolerance
• turn
• understanding
• unselfishness
• waiver
• warmheartedness
• warmth

• animosity
• antipathy
• barbarity
• barbarousness
• bestiality
• blockage
• brutality
• brutishness
• callousness
• cold-bloodedness
• coldheartedness
• coldness
• cruelty
• disadvantage
• disapproval
• disinterest
• dislike
• grimness
• hard-heartedness
• harm
• harshness
• hatefulness
• hatred
• heartlessness
• hindrance
• hostility
• hurdle
• hurt
• ill will
• impediment
• inconsiderateness
• indecency
• indifference
• inhumanity
• inhumanness
• injury
• insensitivity
• interference
• intolerance
• malevolence
• maliciousness
• meanness
• mercilessness
• obstacle
• obstruction
• pitilessness
• ruthlessness
• savageness
• savagery
• selfishness
• severity
• spitefulness
• sternness
• stop
• thoughtlessness
• toughness
• unconcern
• unfeelingness
• unkindliness
• unkindness
• virulence
• vitriol

• noun
  1. The state of being kind.
  2. An instance of kind or charitable behaviour.

• Her kindness toward strangers always brightens their day.
• He was touched by the unexpected kindness of his colleagues.
• The community praised her for her continuous acts of kindness.
• A small act of kindness can make a big difference in someone's life.
• She showed great kindness when she volunteered at the local shelter.

abetment

• advancement
• advice
• aid
• assist
• assistance
• assuagement
• attendance
• attention
• backing
• benefaction
• beneficence
• boost
• care
• charity
• counsel
• encouragement
• endorsement
• facilitation
• favor
• forwarding
• furtherance
• furthering
• guidance
• hand
• hand-holding
• help
• helping hand
• kindness
• leg up
• lift
• mentoring
• nurturance
• palliation
• patronage
• philanthropy
• promotion
• relief
• service
• sponsorship
• succor
• support

abjection

• abasement
• abjectness
• affliction
• agony
• anguish
• aridity
• avarice
• bankruptcy
• barrenness
• baseness
• beastliness
• beggary
• blahs
• bleakness
• blue funk
• bummer
• cheerlessness
• churlishness
• closeness
• contemptibleness
• corruption
• corruptness
• covetousness
• dearth
• debasement
• debauchery
• debt
• decadence
• decadency
• deficiency
• deficit
• degeneracy
• degenerateness
• degeneration
• degradation
• dejection
• demoralization
• depletion
• depravity
• depression
• desolation
• despair
• desperation
• despondency
• destitution
• difficulty
• discomfort
• disconsolation
• discontent
• discouragement
• dispiritedness
• disrepute
• dissipatedness
• dissipation
• dissoluteness
• distress
• dole
• dolefulness
• dolor
• downheartedness
• dreariness
• dullness
• dumps
• emptiness
• ennui
• evil
• exiguity
• famine
• filth
• frugality
• gangrene
• gloom
• gloominess
• greed
• grief
• hardship
• heaviness of heart
• heavyheartedness
• hopelessness
• ill temper
• immorality
• impecuniosity
• impecuniousness
• impoverishment
• inadequacy
• indigence
• infamy
• iniquity
• insolvency
• insufficiency
• knavishness
• lack
• libertinage
• libertinism
• lowness
• lugubriosity
• malice
• malignity
• meagerness
• melancholia
• melancholy
• miserliness
• misery
• mortification
• necessitousness
• necessity
• need
• neediness
• pain
• parsimony
• pass
• paucity
• pauperism
• pennilessness
• penuriousness
• penury
• perversion
• pervertedness
• pettiness
• pinch
• poorness
• privation
• qualm
• rakishness
• rapacity
• reduction
• rot
• sadness
• scarcity
• shamelessness
• shortage
• sinfulness
• smallmindedness
• sordidness
• sorrow
• squalor
• starvation
• stinginess
• straits
• suffering
• the blues
• torment
• trouble
• turpitude
• underdevelopment
• unhappiness
• unkindness
• unscrupulousness
• unworthiness
• vacancy
• vapors
• villainy
• want
• wickedness
• woe
• woefulness
• worry

babying

• allowance
• appeasement
• appeasing
• attention
• care
• carefulness
• cockering
• coddling
• concern
• considerateness
• consideration
• contenting
• cosseting
• courtesy
• dandling
• delighting
• endurance
• excess
• extravagance
• favor
• favoring
• fondling
• fondness
• forbearance
• fulfillment
• gladdening
• goodwill
• gratifying
• hedonism
• humoring
• immoderation
• indulging
• intemperance
• intemperateness
• kindness
• kowtowing
• lenience
• leniency
• lovingness
• mollifying
• mollycoddling
• mothering
• nursing
• obliging
• pacifying
• pampering
• partiality
• patience
• permissiveness
• petting
• placating
• pleasing
• privilege
• profligacy
• profligateness
• satiation
• satisfaction
• satisfying
• service
• solicitousness
• solicitude
• soothing
• spoiling
• thoughtfulness
• toadying
• tolerance
• toleration
• treating
• understanding
• wet-nursing

backing

• abetment
• abetting
• accompaniment
• adherence
• adopting
• advancement
• advancing
• advice
• advising
• advocacy
• advocating
• aegis
• affirming
• aid
• aiding
• assist
• assistance
• assisting
• assuagement
• attendance
• attending
• attention
• auspice
• auspices
• avouching
• backstopping
• bailing out
• bankrolling
• bearing a hand
• benefaction
• beneficence
• benefiting
• benefitting
• bolstering
• boost
• boosting
• buttressing
• care
• championing
• championship
• charity
• comforting
• confirming
• corroborating
• counsel
• counseling
• counselling
• delivering
• easing
• egis
• emboldening
• embracing
• encouragement
• encouraging
• endorsement
• endorsing
• endowment
• espousing
• establishing
• facilitating
• facilitation
• favor
• favoring
• financing
• forwarding
• fosterage
• fostering
• funding
• funds
• furtherance
• furthering
• going in for
• going to bat for
• grant
• guidance
• guiding
• hand
• hand-holding
• heartening
• help
• helping
• helping hand
• holding a brief for
• indorsing
• kindness
• launching
• leg up
• lift
• mentoring
• nurturance
• nurturing
• obliging
• palliation
• patronage
• patronizing
• philanthropy
• plugging
• preaching
• profiting
• promoting
• promotion
• proving
• reenforcing
• reinforcement
• reinforcing
• relief
• rescuing
• sanction
• saving
• seconding
• secondment
• service
• serving
• sponsoring
• sponsorship
• standing one in good stead
• standing up for
• sticking up for
• subsidy
• substantiating
• succor
• succoring
• support
• supporting
• sustaining
• talking up
• validating
• verifying

callousness

• affectlessness
• alienation
• aloofness
• animality
• apathy
• armor
• atrocity
• barbarism
• barbarity
• bawdiness
• bestiality
• blankness
• bloodlessness
• bloodthirstiness
• boorishness
• brutality
• brutishness
• callosity
• carelessness
• coarseness
• cold shoulder
• cold-bloodedness
• coldness
• coolness
• crassness
• crudity
• cruelty
• deadness
• depravity
• despotism
• detachment
• disdain
• disinterest
• disinterestedness
• disloyalty
• dispassion
• disregard
• earthiness
• elephant skin
• emotionlessness
• emptiness
• equity
• ferocity
• fiendishness
• fierceness
• formidable defenses
• halfheartedness
• hard shell
• hard-heartedness
• hardness
• harshness
• heartlessness
• heedlessness
• immunity
• impartiality
• impassiveness
• impassivity
• imperturbability
• imperviousness
• inattention
• inconsequence
• inconsequentiality
• inconsequentialness
• inconsiderateness
• indelicacy
• indifference
• inertia
• inhumanity
• insensibility
• insensitiveness
• insensitivity
• insignificance
• insignificancy
• insouciance
• isolationism
• lack
• lethargy
• listlessness
• malice
• maliciousness
• malignity
• masochism
• mercilessness
• murderousness
• negligence
• neutrality
• nonchalance
• noninterference
• numbness
• obduracy
• objectivity
• offensiveness
• persecution
• phlegm
• poor taste
• rancor
• rawness
• rhinoceros hide
• ribaldry
• roughness
• rudeness
• ruthlessness
• sadism
• savageness
• savagery
• severity
• smut
• smuttiness
• spite
• spitefulness
• stiffness
• stoicism
• thanklessness
• thick hide
• thick shell
• thoughtlessness
• torpor
• torture
• truculence
• truculency
• unconcern
• uncouthness
• unevenness
• unfeelingness
• unimportance
• unkindness
• unmindfulness
• unrefinement
• unthankfulness
• vacancy
• venom
• viciousness
• violence
• wickedness
• woodenness

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